Common hacker shorthand for lexical analyzer, the input-tokenizing stage in the parser for a language (the part that breaks it into word-like pieces). “Some C lexers get confused by the old-style compound ops like =-.”
Common hacker shorthand for lexical analyzer, the input-tokenizing stage in the parser for a language (the part that breaks it into word-like pieces). “Some C lexers get confused by the old-style compound ops like =-.”