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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:26:47 -0500
From: "Joel Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Replacements for lex
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> I think that most people roll their own lexical analyzers under Plan 9.
> That's typically not too hard to do, though.

That's likely what I'll do for the final project (probably yet another
C complier, but I might try my hand with [a subset of] D), but the
professor has said he'll want us to learn to use
mechanically-generated scanners and compare the results.

I expect the lexer in /sys/src/cmd/cc/ will be a good example.

--Joel