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From: csu025@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams)
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Subject: Re: zortech problem with lex
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Date: 26 Feb 90 18:39:43 GMT
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>I'm afraid I don't understand. Is the *compiler* not working right or the
>*run-time library*? Please reduce the problem to a few lines of code
>which exhibit the problem. I know very little about lex/flex.
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                            !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yipes!
If you don't mind my asking, do you USE any automated compiler writing
tools? Maybe I got into the game a little later that you did, but a
compiler author who knows little about lex is a little like a auto mechanic
who doesn't know about socket wrenches -- I've no doubt he can do his
job, but isn't he working a little bit too hard?