11 Mar
2006
11 Mar
'06
9:30 p.m.
Parsing C++ is only possible (unambigiously) after preprocessing it first, and when at any moment a full list of every identifier is known: the parser needs to know which types have been declared, which variables exist etc, in the scope that it is parsing at that moment. As a result, any C++ parser has to be almost a compiler before it can work. -- Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>