Lexer hack: Difference between revisions

In [[computer programming]], the '''lexer hack''' is a common solution to the problems in [[parsing]] [[ANSI C]], due to the reference [[Context-free grammar|grammar]] being context-sensitive. In C, classifying a sequence of characters as a variable name or a type name requires contextual information of the phrase structure, which prevents one from having a context-free [[lexical analysis|lexer]].