Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net>: > > They hit the language in a weak spot created by the immutability of > > strings. > > But you lost me here -- I don't see a connection between immutability and > either ease of writing lexers or speed of lexers. It's an implementation problem. You find yourself doing a lot of string accessing and pasting, creating several new objects per input char. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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