Re: very specific question on Ada syntax

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <956vav$e7q$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> will have trouble. Note that if you are using a tool like
> flex, there is absolutely no problem in dealing with this.

To the best of my knowledge, flex has no "last token" function in its
API. It can do *character* context, but not token context. Thus to
properly handle this situation with lex, you'd have to hack it in
manually with inserted C code (most likely by passing info back from the
parser).

I just checked the Ada95 lex spec available from the AdaIC site
(http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lrm_rat/lexer9x.l
). It indeed contains no context information in the token definitions,
and thus should have the same problem. The relevent entries are:
-------------------------------------------
"'"                     return(TIC);
"'"."'"                 return(char_lit);
-------------------------------------------


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