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On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Paul Wolf <paulwolf333@gmail.com> wrote:
> For instance, a template language that validates the output would have to do frequency analysis. But that is getting too far off the purpose of strgen, although such a mechanism would certainly have its place.

I don't think that would be necessary. The question being asked with
validation is "can this string be generated from this template", not
"is this string generated from this template with relatively high
probability".