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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: Bug in lex?
Message-ID: <1989Sep17.180836.2765@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 17 Sep 89 18:08:36 GMT
References: <1989Sep16.025910.6048@twwells.com>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <1989Sep16.025910.6048@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>Every time I try to use lex's start states something breaks. ...

In the Sys V3.2 manual on lex, they no longer document start states.
I guess they couldn't make them work either.  Keep in mind that lex
was written as an undergraduate summer intern's project at Bell Labs.

>I just switched to flex.

Good thinking.
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