From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2005-11-04T03:53:37+09:00
Subject: Re: YACC (Was: Re: ruby-dev summary 27393-27541)

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 00:07 +0900, Eric Mahurin wrote:
> Secondly, I think it might be possible to reduce the lexer state to
> one bit - whether the next operator is unary or binary. For example - %:
> string vs. modulus, <<: heredoc vs. leftshift, `: execution quote vs. method
> name. I may look at some of this simplification later.

If you can reduce it that far, you don't need lexer state, just
sufficient lookahead.

-mental