Dear Sir, I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler. I know you wanted a “simple prototype” that would just add that one feature to your programming model. You said that “SSA is an overkill” and “it’s just way too much infrastructure to maintain for a simple task” and yet, six months later, you have pile of string mangling scripts that do not work—breaking every time a user input slightly deviates from things you’ve seen before. Surely, switching to the unstable abstract syntax tr...