Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 17:27:47 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Gerhard W. Gruber" <g DOT gruber AT sis DOT co DOT at>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: C/C++ language definition
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On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote:

> I'm not really firm with lex and yacc but I thought that one has to
> use either lex or lex + yacc.

Yacc parsers don't care how was the lexical analyser created.  They only 
care to see a function by the name `yylex', that's all.  So you can craft 
lexical analysers by hand.