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From: flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: file handle anomaly
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Date: 30 Jun 91 11:16:47 GMT
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It's actually the tokenizer that knows the difference between
left-shift and here-is quoting.  The scanner keeps track of whether it
just saw an operator and uses this to decide what + - . * x / % & <
and << mean.
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu