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From: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: LEX Question
Message-ID: <412@chem.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 89 01:06:52 GMT
References: <32240@auc.UUCP> <9580001@hpcuhb.HP.COM> <1989Feb15.200741.15963@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Feb15.200741.15963@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
[ discussion about using yyin/yyout in lex programs ]

>Be careful:  this is not a documented feature, at least not in all versions
>of lex, and therefore should not be relied on too heavily in portable code.

Have you run across a version of lex that does NOT have yyin/yyout?
I've always thought changing yyin was much more portable than re-defining
input().
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|| Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry	tps@chem.ucsd.edu