Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!amdahl!dlb!megatest!djones
From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: LEX
Message-ID: <248@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 88 12:18:19 GMT
References: <3703@megaron.arizona.edu>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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 In article <260@nyit.UUCP>, michael@nyit.UUCP (Michael Gwilliam) writes:
 
> I'm writting a C like language to discribe data structures.  When I
> was writting the tokenizer using LEX and I got intrigued by a little
> problem.  Is it possible to write a regular expression that will
> transform a /* comment */ into nothing?
 
It is indeed intriguing.   I don't think you can write any
LR(k) context-free grammar to "transform it" into anything.

		- djones