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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Eric,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thank you for the feedback. Jesse -
perhaps your comment above the definition noting that multi-line comments are
not covered is sufficient.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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sdl-developers-bounces@ikayzo.org [mailto:sdl-developers-bounces@ikayzo.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>E M<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, January 07, 2007
9:59 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
sdl-developers@ikayzo.org:Information relating to SDL development<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Sdl-developers] ABNF
Grammar</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Jesse,<br>
<br>
I remember that the Lex and Yacc Oreilly book (which I unfortunately gave away)
had an example of lexing multiline comments out of the token stream. It was
done using "start conditions" which basically define a sublexer to
parse the comment out separate from the language definition.<br>
<br>
I know that no one is probably using Flex anymore, but if you are writing a
lexer, there might be a hint in the Flex manual. There is a specific example of
parsing C comments with Flex in section 0.11 and 0.18.<br>
<br>
Also, I took a look at the official C grammer, and the official Java grammar,
and noticed that both do NOT contain a description of the comment lexing. So
maybe it does not need a description in the language definition of SDL.<br>
<br>
Eric<br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Jesse Weaver
<pianohacker@gmail.com></span></i></b> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>An early version of the <a
href="http://www.ikayzo.org/confluence/display/SDL/ABNF+Grammar">grammar</a> is
up, supporting everything but multiline comments. Any ideas on how we could add
these?<br clear=all>
<br>
-- <br>
Jesse <br>
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