[m-dev.] cc_multi or det ?

[Holger Krug]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:31:29AM -0700, Ralph Becket wrote:
> Thinking more about this, since the motivation for this is to allow
> the lexer component of a parsing appliction to report input errors,
> perhaps the best thing to do would be to assume the parser can
> recognise such things as int_too_large tokens and deal with them at
> that level (as opposed to checking for strings returned in error
> terms) rather than much about with catching exceptions etc. in
> lex itself.
> 
> Now I think about this, that seems a preferable way to go.

I deem, the compoment which does the conversion from string to int should
do the checks, too.

Can we agree on your proposal to call them `lex__read_cc_multi is cc_multi'
and `lex__read is det' ?

-- 
Holger Krug
hkrug at rationalizer.com
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