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The lexer hack

Okay kiddo, let me explain the lexer hack in a simple way. Imagine you are reading a book with a friend, but your friend doesn't understand some of the words in the book. You could help them by underlining the important parts of the text to make it easier for them to understand.

The lexer hack works in a similar way, but with computer code instead of a book. When you write code, the computer needs to understand it, but sometimes the code can be hard for the computer to read. In that case, we can make it easier for the computer to understand by using the lexer hack.

The lexer hack works by tricking the computer into thinking the code is written in a different language. By doing this, we can make the computer understand the code better and run it faster. It's like putting on different glasses to see things more clearly.

But just like with underlining text in a book, we need to be careful when using the lexer hack. It can be risky if we don't know what we are doing, so we should always ask for help from someone who knows more about it than we do.
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