Lexes vs Vexes - What's the difference?
lexes | vexes |
(lex)
(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#
(vex)
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To trouble aggressively, to harass.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XII:
To annoy, irritate.
To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
(rare) To twist, to weave.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
* Alexander Pope
As a verb lexes
is (lex).As an adjective vexes is
.lexes
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- 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...
Derived terms
* lexerSee also
* ----vexes
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(es)- In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregacion, to vexe them.
- Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.
- some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom
- (Chapman)
- White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.
