Re[2]: boolean operators

[Gunnar Zötl <gz@...>]

Nick Gammon wrote:

NG> The lexer can be told whether or not to consider a sign as a separate
NG> token, I have written ones that do that.

NG> For example, after getting a symbol (x in your example), it is not  
NG> syntactically correct for it to be followed by a number (eg. x 5) so  
NG> the next "+" must be an operator token, not the start of a number.

actually, the unit recognizing such things would be the parser. The
lexer just knows how to recognize tokens. However, if it is the parser
recognizing negative numbers, and not the lexer, then the parser can
easily be written in a way to recognize such stuff.

Not advocating anything, just nitpicking ;-)

Gunnar