From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6d9eb594a33cb947 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-01 20:00:17 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: very specific question on Ada syntax Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 03:52:32 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <95datu$1jv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Feb 02 03:52:32 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x51.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4841 Date: 2001-02-02T03:52:32+00:00 List-Id: In article , comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote: > I chose the word "understand" wrongly. I know very well the > concepts behind it, as per e.g. the "Modern Compiler Design > with Java" book. I simply never utilized flex/yacc. I should > have said "I dont _talk_ flex". Never saw flex manual worth > that name. I am glad to know one exists that is not very > long ;-) I will try to locate it someday. Thanks. >From my course page, try this link http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring01/G22.2130-001/flex/flex_toc.h tml The course page may be of interest to some people here, it is a graduate compilers course which is based on looking at the front end of GNAT closely, and the class project is to write a code generator for a subset of Ada compiled using the GNAT front end. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/