Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Parsing is a whole nother ball of wax besides lexing. I wasn't planning
> > to put *that* into psql. Remember the only thing psql really wants from
> > this is to detect where end-of-statement is ...
>
> Forgive my lameness, but I've never truly figured out where parsing ends
> and lexing begins. Anyone care to illuminate me on the difference?
The simplistic answer is the lexing breaks a string up into
words/tokens, and parsing matches those tokens against patterns and
fires actions.
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