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Lex vs Lee - What's the difference?

lex | lee |

As proper nouns the difference between lex and lee

is that lex is a pet form of the male given name alexander while lee is for someone who lived near a meadow (the anglo-saxon for meadow being ley or leag).

lex

English

Verb

  • (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...

    Derived terms

    * lexer

    See also

    * ----

    lee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sailing) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
  • (sailing) The side of the ship away from the wind.
  • A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection.
    • the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship
  • * Morte d'Arthure
    • We lurked under lee .
  • * Tyndall
    • Desiring me to take shelter in his lee .

    Derived terms

    * alee * leeward * leeway

    See also

    * lees

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