Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri May 18 04:09:56 EDT 2018

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Eric V. Smith wrote:
> I assume the intent is to not throw away any information in the lexer, 
> and give the parser full access to the original string. But that's just 
> a guess.

More likely it's because the lexer is fairly dumb and can
basically just recognise regular expressions.

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Greg

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