Michael Van Canneyt schrieb: > > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > >> On 29 April 2010 12:39, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote: >>> >>> The compiler uses only a single lookahead token, while disambiguating >>> your >>> example would require two. >> >> I did look at the links you posted and still couldn't see the problem. >> The paragraph above gives the key information - the FPC parses only >> uses a single lookahead. > > As far as I remember, this was one of the key strengths of the Pascal > Language: that parsing is possible using a single lookahead token.
Having a bigger lookahead makes a lot more things far more complex epecially in combination with include files, macros, generics. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
