Re: What should be check in Lexical Analyzer along with generating tokens?

"Clint Olsen" <clint@0lsen.net>
20 Sep 2002 02:35:58 -0400

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From: "Clint Olsen" <clint@0lsen.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 20 Sep 2002 02:35:58 -0400
Organization: AT&T Broadband
References: 02-09-087 02-09-110
Keywords: lex
Posted-Date: 20 Sep 2002 02:35:44 EDT

Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> Contrary to common wisdom, I believe that the lexer should not really do
> that - in modern times, there is too much software around that does all


But you do agree that it's the lexer's job to check comments, right? How
do you expect to be able to represent comments in a CFG?


-Clint

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