[m-rev.] lex and moose changed

[Fergus Henderson]

On 02-Aug-2001, Michael Day <mikeday at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > As a suggested application, here's a token type I'd like to have produced by
> > the lexer:
> >
> > 	:- type token --->
> > 		plus ; minus ; times ; divide ; int(int) ; ident(string).
> >
> > Hopefully this is simple enough to be easy to code, and complex enough to
> > illustrate the differences between the approaches.
> 
> What do people think about scanning using predicates and backtracking?

I like that approach.

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