Timeline for Should I lookahead in the lexer or parser?
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| Dec 4, 2022 at 10:20 | vote | accept | dumbPotato21 | ||
| Dec 4, 2022 at 9:55 | comment | added | Pseudonym♦ | In the real world, the lines between a lexer and a parser are blurry. But they're often not as blurry in language specifications. | |
| Dec 3, 2022 at 13:56 | comment | added | dumbPotato21 |
So aren't the lines between a lexer and parser blurry? I imagined that the parser is the one which looks ahead and decides which path of the grammar to take(say X -> A | B | C) but couldn't you do that within the lexer as well?
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| Dec 3, 2022 at 13:46 | history | answered | Pseudonym♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |