lex
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also Lex
Contents |
English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From lexical analysis, from lexical
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
lex (third-person singular simple present lexes, present participle lexing, simple past and past participle lexed)
- (computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
- 1994, Donna K Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2)
- Once this is done, each processor parses and lexes its own documents, using conventional programming techniques.
- 2004, Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis
- SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree.
- 2007, Don Syme, Adam Granicz, Antonio Cisternino, Expert F#
- Lexing and parsing do not have to be separated, and there are often convenient .NET methods for extracting information from text in particular formats...
- 1994, Donna K Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2)
Derived terms [edit]
See also [edit]
lex (software) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:lex (software)
Latin [edit]
Noun [edit]
lēx (genitive lēgis); f, third declension
- A law
- Publilius Syrus (translation Benham's Book of Quotations 1948)
- Lex universa est quae iubet nasci et mori.
- dura lex, sed lex.
- The law is tough but it is the law.
- Publilius Syrus (translation Benham's Book of Quotations 1948)
Inflection [edit]
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | lēx | lēgēs |
| genitive | lēgis | lēgum |
| dative | lēgī | lēgibus |
| accusative | lēgem | lēgēs |
| ablative | lēge | lēgibus |
| vocative | lēx | lēgēs |
Derived terms [edit]
Derived terms
