From: netnews!schonberg!dewar@nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: what languages Ada 9X compilers are being written in
Date: 28 May 93 06:37:41 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.738571061@schonberg> (raw)
With respect to the idea of using an enumeration type and 'VAL to read and
parse keywords, it's cute, but no serious compiler would use such a technique
since it is likely to be seriously inefficient, and any gains in simplicity
are probably illusion in the context of a complete lexical scanner.
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1993-05-26 20:02 what languages Ada 9X compilers are being written in Wes Groleau X7574
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