scan_string() is the right gate for this: every El source that embeds JS
or CSS does so as a quoted string literal, and the lexer is the single
chokepoint every backend reads. Strip there and the // line comments
and /* */ block comments never reach the parser, codegen, or the served
HTML.
looks_like_code is intentionally narrow:
- contains "<script" or "<style" (the embedded-asset case), or
- contains "function" AND ";" (a JS body without an opening tag)
Plain prose with stray // sequences passes through verbatim.
strip_code_comments tracks JS string state (single, double, backtick)
and never strips inside one. Backslash escapes inside JS strings consume
the next char verbatim. URL guard: when the char before / is ':', emit
the / literally and advance one — preserves https:// inside string
literals. Block-comment scan walks until the matching '*/' pair.
elc-cli.el is now a one-line `import "el-compiler/src/compiler.el"`
shim. Top-level `let _argv = args()` was clashing with C int main()'s
`char** _argv` parameter once compiler.el's fn main() body got folded
into C main. compiler.el owns the CLI entry point now.
Self-host fixed point reached: gen2 == gen3 byte-identical.
Tagged dist/platform/elc.20260502-1104-self-host alongside dist/platform/elc.
Will Anderson
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