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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Lex/Yacc question
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In article <v01540b11aec3de6b7afb@[194.32.164.2]> you write:
>>I've written a number of parsers, too.  Nonen of them needed:
>>
>>        KEYWORD rest of stuff to end of line
>
>Ever heard of Ada?
>
>        -- and the rest of the line is a comment

# sh does it too.
// And C++
% And Postscript
; And a number of assemblers
! And X resource files
XCOMM And Imakefiles

I just don't get it. Why use a formal grammer to parse 821 anyway, not to
mention that

KEYWORD\ .*		{ foo(yytext+sizeof "KEYWORD"); }

works fine. Did you see the disgusting trick I pulled there?