English Dictionary: lexer | by the DICT Development Group |
2 results for lexer | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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 `=-'." | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
lexer {lexical analyser} |