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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
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Subject: Re: C parsing: significance of spaces
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Date: Mon, 23-Apr-84 18:05:05 EST
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As has been pointed out "a/*b" is different from "a/(*b)" and "a / *b".
The C language standard states fairly clearly that lexical tokens are
disambiguated by the longest possible parse.  Hope this clarifies
the problem.  By this rule "a+++b" means "(a++) + b".

Martin Minow
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