Looking for champion - std.lang.d.lex

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/23/10 16:39 CDT, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>  wrote in message
> news:i9v8vq$2gvh$1 at digitalmars.com...
> What's wrong with regexes? That's pretty typical for lexers.

I mentioned that using regexes is possible but would make it much more 
difficult to generate good quality lexers.

Besides, regexen are IMHO quite awkward at expressing certain things 
that can be easily parsed by hand, such as comments or recursive comments.

Andrei