Re: Why the lexer?

Ben Collins <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Apr 2004 21:21:38 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.prothon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 07:12:37PM -0300, Kenny MacDermid wrote:
> Just curious as to why a hand-written lexer was choosen over a
> simple lex/flex one?

This is sort of a loaded question, don't you think? It was written using
yacc/bison, because that's what someone knew how to use. If you think
flex would be better, reimplement it using flex and we'll review it.

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