[Haskell-cafe] Alex and Flex

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Oct 3, 2008, at 09:24 , Manlio Perillo wrote:
> Manlio Perillo ha scritto:
>> However I have noted that there are some difference in the syntax  
>> between Alex and Flex?
>> What is the rationale?
>
> By the way, here is the list of differences between Alex and Flex I  
> have found, for people interested:
>
> 3) Alex does not support
>       [_a-z0-9-]
>   that must be rewritten as
>       [_a-z0-9\-]

The only *reliable* way to write that cset is to put the '-' as the  
first item.  Likewise for ']' (and if you must match both, "[-]...]").

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