From: derek-nospam@shape-of-code.com   
      
   John,   
      
   > This paper proposes a code editor and parser using obligations, a term I   
   > had not seen before and they do not define, but appears to mean   
      
   It looks like they are making terms up to make the work sound   
   dramatic, e.g., panicking parser.   
      
   > pseudo-tokens that require other tokens later to make them valid.  They seem   
   to   
   > do better at recovering from syntax errors than other schemes do.   
      
   No mention of trial parsing, which has been around since   
   the 1960s.   
      
   > https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16848   
      
   Nothing to see here.  This is just a mathematical orgasm paper.   
      
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