From: Ned Konz Date: 2001-08-01T03:21:55+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:18905] Re: Digits in method names On Tuesday 31 July 2001 10:24 am, brucedickey wrote: > Most mainstream > parsers are limited to one character of look-ahead (if any) (are LALR, > LL(1), etc), and that is the reason for the restriction. My impression is that typical parsers have one _token_ of lookahead, and that typically a lexer would be responsible for assembling _characters_ into _tokens_. And it's pretty simple to determine where tokens end. The ambiguity I'd see would be with the representation of floating point numbers: what is "3e5" ? -- Ned Konz currently: Stanwood, WA email: ned@bike-nomad.com homepage: http://bike-nomad.com