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As a side note, "lexing" is jargon that has never been in use by authors of books on compilers.
by Koshkin 6y ago
As a side note, "lexing" is jargon that has never been in use by authors of books on compilers.
- chrisseaton 6y agoIt's just short for lexically analysing. The Dragon book has almost a hundred pages on lexical analysis.
- Turing_Machine 6y ago"Jargon", perhaps. "Never been in use by authors"? Not so. The current "international economy edition" of Aho, et al uses "lexing" 29 times, according to the search function on Amazon. Flex & Bison by John Levine (O'Reilly and Associates) uses "lexing" 38 times. And so on.
- mhh__ 6y agoThe people who write compilers people actually use say lexing quite regularly.