On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 01:58:06PM -0500, Joel Salomon wrote:
> Has anyone had success with lexer-generators other than lex under Plan
> 9? I'm taking a compilers class this semester and I'd like to do as
> much work under Plan 9 as possible.
>
> I looked around online and found re2c, which looked interesting except
> it's written in C++.
>
> For languages sufficiently like C, is regexp(2) suitable?
I think that most people roll their own lexical analyzers under Plan 9.
That's typically not too hard to do, though.
- Dan C.
