On 07/04/2010, Mike Caron <[email protected]> wrote:
> Watch out for that unary minus! ;)
>
> --
> Mike Caron

Yeah, that caught me. I had to add backtracking.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Versteegen <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 20:58:39
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Ohrrpgce] SVN: teeemcee/3466 Wrote a proper lexer for HSpeak -
>       nearly: it still produces strings rath
>
> On 07/04/2010, Seth Hetu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Wrote a proper lexer for HSpeak - nearly: it still produces strings
>>> rather
>>> than lexemes since the rest of HSpeak wouldn't know what to do with them.
>>
>> Congratulations! May I ask what kind of lexer it is? (Recursive
>> descent, I'm guessing).
>>
>> -->Seth
>
> I thought recursive descent was used only for parsers, not lexers (but
> maybe complicated context sensitive grammars would require them)?
>
> I looked around for parser generators for Euphoria and found one, but
> it had an infexible lexer, so after considering writing my own lexer
> generator I simply hand coded it - just as well, turned out to not be
> much work. The lexer doesn't distinguish numbers yet, but I think I
> shall add that, because I think I shall upgrade HSpeak to use tokens
> rather than strings (which will be a huge change requiring a lot of
> rewriting)
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