Re: Why the lexer?
Ben Collins <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Apr 2004 21:21:38 -0400
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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. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/