>>> "Satya" == Satya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Other commercial systems have taken a short cut and provided
> facilities to describe the lexer specification as part of the grammar.
> I was thinking if we can include a lexer specification into Bison:
> %token TOK_IF "if" { //Action for if }
> %token TOK_NUMBER "[0-9]+" { //action for number }
> though this would be breaking an age old tradition of separating the
> lexer and parser... (which has got its own advantages);
This is indeed a tempting idea, but there are many pitfalls bu there.
Let's serialize challenges...
