lexer
/lek´sr/, n.
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 =-."
/lek´sr/, n.
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 =-."