Talk:Compiler/lexical analyzer: Difference between revisions
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The example outputs use \n to display the new line within strings. However, some scanners place the actual character into the output. It should all be done one way so lexical output from C for example would be valid input into all other languages syntax program.
[[User:Jwells1213|Jwells1213]] ([[User talk:Jwells1213|talk]]) 18:31, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
: This sounds like a nice idea, but there's other aspects of the task which are not sufficiently standardized for that to work (like the pipe mechanism). Conceptually. Perhaps a more important goal would be to have the implementations be readable enough that making these adjustments would be straightforward to implement. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 19:01, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
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