Objective C lexer - small cleanup

[Zack Weinberg]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:55:51AM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:-
> 
> > > I like your patch.  I'm just a little wary of getting too much code
> > > dependent on the lookahead mechanism.  But that shouldn't stop your
> > > patch going in.
> > 
> > Is this because you want to change the lookahead mechanism, or you're
> > worried about it not working correctly, or what?
> 
> Both :-) It'd be nice to merge it with Mark's, though that might not
> be possible since one would be operating withing cpp_get_token () and
> one outside.  Still, it's worth considering.

Oh, I see what you mean.

Mark's scheme is suitable for his recursive descent parser, and if he
follows through on the threats to make it do C and Objective C too,
then we may wind up using it there too.  For the present C/ObjC
parser, though, it's overkill; cpplib's scheme works fine.

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