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Parenthesis-delimited blocks (@article(...)) are silently parsed as implicit comments #533
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Standard BibTeX allows parentheses as block delimiters, but the splitter regex only accepts { (bibtexparser/splitter.py:296, (?={) lookahead). A block like
@article(test2002, author = {A}, year = {2002})becomes an ImplicitComment — no entry, no failed block, no warning. Silent data loss.
Either support the (...) form, or at minimum emit a ParsingFailedBlock so the loss is visible.
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claell commentedon Jul 16, 2026
I opened draft PR #571 using the fail-closed option discussed here: parenthesis-delimited blocks are retained as explicit parsing failures, with recovery for subsequent supported blocks. It does not claim full parenthesis parsing support.
✨ Support parenthesis-delimited blocks such as `@article(...)` (#620)