I don't know what the halting problem has to do with non-deterministic or randomized programs. The perl parser is deterministic, and it does not toss random coins. You can certainly insert randomness into a BEGIN block, but that's not what's going on here and it doesn't mean that parsing itself is randomized. Jeffrey's examples & undecidability proofs all involve deterministic BEGIN phases. If you run the parser a billion times on a deterministic program, you will get the same result every time. Different instances of the parser do not give different parses. The only way to get different parses is by having different behavior within the BEGIN block.
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