From: Dr Steve Sangwine <S.J.Sangwine@Reading.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Lexical Conundrum
Date: 1998/02/26
Date: 1998-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34F57423.62EF622D@Reading.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.888209206@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
>I am puzzled. 2.2(7) says
>7 One or more separators are allowed between any two adjacent lexical
>elements, before the first of each compilation, or after the last. At least
>one separator is required between an identifier, a reserved word, or a
>numeric_literal and an adjacent identifier, reserved word, or numeric_
>literal.
Robert Duff's point is that the separators are allowed but not
required. 2.2(7) explains where the separators are needed such as
or X in
where X is an identifier and
orXin
would be interpreted as something else. But it doesn't say
(explicitly) that you don't need separators for
or 'A' in
As an Ada user since 1986 (not involved with compilers) it
had never occurred to me to leave the separators out. Thanks
for an interesting discussion.
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Dr S. J. Sangwine
Department of Engineering
The University of Reading
Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AY, UK
Email: S.J.Sangwine@Reading.ac.uk
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-19 0:00 Lexical Conundrum Nick Roberts
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <EotBMK.MnK@world.std.com>
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <Eou91J.Es9@world.std.com>
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-26 0:00 ` Dr Steve Sangwine [this message]
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-03-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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1998-02-22 0:00 Nick Roberts
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-24 0:00 ` John Roberts-Jones
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