BCS wrote:
Hello Walter,
Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
Totally agree. They're cruft that just complicate lexical analysis.
Not a significant issue, as the code to lex it is done, works, and is
readily available.
But that assumes that just using the lexer is acceptable. What if
someone needs to generate there own lexer? Say in a different language,
like D?. Or they want to generate a token highlighter?
Oh please, it's trivial to translate.
Or what about if
they need to make a tool in a shop that has a bad case of NIH? Or where
they must /own/ the code for legal reasons.
For a fee that would be less than what it would cost them to develop a
simpler integer lexer, I'd license it to them under whatever terms they
want.
Sure, I've run into companies that would cheerfully blow through $30,000
of engineering time trying to duplicate what I'd license to them for
$500, but NIH people are determined to immolate themselves anyway.
