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Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ...

From Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ...
Date 2013-03-12 09:30 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <khnahl$trr$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <aq4cssFsm5rU1@mid.individual.net> <ke3qj8daj46td8g3lklac14mtr56na4rv4@4ax.com> <khlk24$bqu$1@dont-email.me> <lexing-20130311232821@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <khm1ti$el1$1@dont-email.me>

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On 3/11/2013 9:56 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote:
> On 3/11/2013 5:28 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> =?UTF-8?B?Sm9zaHVhIENyYW5tZXIg8J+Qpw==?=  <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid>
>> writes:
>>> On 3/10/2013 5:54 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
>>>> parsing Java
>>> Actually, all of those examples fall under the category of lexing,
>>
>>    Parsing is not lexing, usually parsing comes after lexing.
>>
>
> I agree, but Roedy wrote:
> parsing Java, HTML, BAT language ... to do syntax colouring.
>
> Syntax coloring generally requires nothing more than lexing the input to
> figure which tokens are which.

     Is that how the NetBeans editor knows to display local
variables in black but class and instance fields in green?

     ;-)

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Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid

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regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... qwertmonkey@syberianoutpost.ru - 2013-03-10 02:27 +0000
  Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Arne VajhĂžj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-09 21:33 -0500
  Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-03-09 21:00 -0600
  Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2013-03-09 23:33 -0600
  Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-03-10 10:27 +0000
  Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-03-10 12:55 +0000
  Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-10 07:57 -0700
    Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-10 22:39 +0100
      Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-10 15:54 -0700
        Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-11 21:03 +0100
        Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-03-11 17:00 -0500
          Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-03-11 18:31 -0400
            Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Arne VajhĂžj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-11 18:40 -0400
              Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-03-11 21:39 -0400
          Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-03-11 23:06 +0000
          Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-03-11 20:56 -0500
            Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Arne VajhĂžj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-11 22:06 -0400
            Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-03-12 09:30 -0400
      Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-10 16:24 -0700
        Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-11 21:08 +0100
          Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Arne VajhĂžj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-03-11 16:59 -0400
            Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-11 22:24 +0100
      Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-11 21:00 +0100
    Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-13 08:07 +0100
  Re: regexp(ing) Backus-Naurish expressions ... markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-03-10 11:16 -0700

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