Lex vs Hex - What's the difference?
lex | hex |
(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)
* 2004 , Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis
* 2007 , Don Syme, Adam Granicz, Antonio Cisternino, Expert F#
To put a hex (a spell, especially an evil spell) on.
An evil spell or curse.
A witch.
(rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
(computing, informal)
A hexagonal space on a game board.
a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.
As verbs the difference between lex and hex
is that lex is to perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing while hex is to put a hex (a spell, especially an evil spell) on.As a proper noun Lex
is a pet form of the male given name Alexander.As a noun hex is
an evil spell or curse.lex
English
Verb
- Once this is done, each processor parses and lexes its own documents, using conventional programming techniques.
- SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree.
- Lexing and parsing do not have to be separated, and there are often convenient .NET methods for extracting information from text in particular formats...