Re: Why the lexer?

> 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.

But yacc/bison is parser generator, not lexer.....



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Pawel