Re: How to parse keywords that can be used as identifiers?

itz@rahul.net (Ian T Zimmerman) writes:
> One problem (admittedly of a different nature) is that allowing this makes
> implementation much harder. Therefore, there'll be fewer and more expensive
> implementations, and the organisations responsible for the few


So true (ahem).
Example: Scheme is so much more widely available than C++ due to C++ simple
minded grammar.


If you have tried to write a (complete) C++ parser, you know that it can totally
prevent someone from even considering writing a C++ compiler. And yet there are
tons of dozens of C++ compilers.


                Stefan
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