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    Losing formatting other than what you’ve set in your deparser would be the point. Losing comments would be bad, but that seems easily fixable just by giving each comment block a symbol that points to it’s contents.

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      311 hours ago

      Or by including comments in the parse tree. (& Yes, it is done various places for various languages and formats.)

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        Do you have some examples?

        (That is what I meant by giving them a symbol, maybe I worded it poorly)