Interesting comment on this very issue and some of the benefits of 2 phase .

http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/94-10-101

it boils down to how have languages who have a single phase done rather
than how badly some languages who have 2 phases have done.

Ben


On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I think it is a good question to ask: after more than half century of
> formal grammar theory and practice and parser generator experience, how
> important is it really *in practice* to have the token stream vs. parse
> tree/AST distinction?  Note that I appreciate the intellectual appeal -- I
> am just asking from the _practice_ point of view.
> I don't want my syntax colorizer to colorize keywords; I want it to
> colorize based on meaning, e.g. semantics of program fragments.
>
>
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