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- verb Present participle of
lex .
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That way you can skip much of the dull stuff (syntax, parsing, lexing etc …) and concentrate on writing the compiler.
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_ = ; This as just as easy as the others - just mix in CharFinders scalalexer lexing "x,y;"
A Scala Lexer Jack Cough 2009
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The old code held its chars and was responsible for handing its own mutation, and the mutation was a bit cluttered in with the lexing logic.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jack Cough 2009
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_ = ; This as just as easy as the others - just mix in CharFinders scalalexer lexing "x,y;"
Archive 2009-05-01 Jack Cough 2009
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Any more calls to nextToken will continue to return EOF until the Lexer gets new data via the lexing methods.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jack Cough 2009
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Identifinder with NumberFinder scala lexer lexing "123"
Archive 2009-05-01 Jack Cough 2009
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NumberFinder with CharFinders with WhiteSpaceFinder lexer lexing " x , y ;"
A Scala Lexer Jack Cough 2009
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Separate Scala lexing from Lexer core, providing a reusable Lexer framework for Lexing any language.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jack Cough 2009
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Any more calls to nextToken will continue to return EOF until the Lexer gets new data via the lexing methods.
A Scala Lexer Jack Cough 2009
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NumberFinder with CharFinders with WhiteSpaceFinder lexer lexing " x , y ;"
Archive 2009-05-01 Jack Cough 2009
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