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Lex vs Plex - What's the difference?

lex | plex |

As a verb lex

is to perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.

As a proper noun Lex

is a pet form of the male given name Alexander.

As a noun plex is

a low-rise apartment building.

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

    * ----

    plex

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (Canada) A low-rise apartment building.
  • * 2001 , Thomas F. McIlwraith, Edward K. Muller, North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent (page 457)
    • Most new housing has taken the form of single-family dwellings, not plexes , and levels of home ownership have risen steadily.
  • * 2004 , Richard Harris, Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960 (page 34)
    • English-style terraced houses or the cheaper type of Montreal plexes that opened directly onto the street made such a way of life possible, but just barely.