Re: [lojban] LALR1 question

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Richard Curnow scripsit:

> I guess there's some clever trick being used to workaround this, but
> I've not worked out what it is.  Can anyone enlighten me?

In the official parser, the lexer will simply scoop up as many tokens as
it needs to, backtracking if it finds something that doesn't match its
expectations.  All these tokens become a single YACC token.

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