note Jeffrey Kegler What you say is true -- in fact I am writing a parser which does ambiguous parsing, and it was that which motivated the investigation which resulted in this proof. <p>However the claim is that Perl parsing is <b>undecidable</b> -- and listing the possible decisions does not make it decidable. Coming up with all the multiple parse trees may produce an answer adequate for most, or in particular cases, all practical purposes. But it does not <b>decide</b> the parse. <p>Similarly, we deal with the halting problem adequately for practical purposes with every program we write. However, the halting problems remains undecidable, and that remains a useful thing to know as we in practice write 1000's upon 1000's of programs which must and do halt. 663393 770827