Re: Location revisited, column tracking...

[Hans Aberg]

At 11:18 -0700 2002/07/25, John Millaway wrote:
>Knowledge is not the problem here. The problem is wasted time debugging,
>reinventing the same code over again, and the fragile distribution of the
>location tracking code across all the actions. If it were in one place, and
>handled by flex, then your scanner actions would be cleaner, and you'd save
>time.

Right: The same as with all new structures added to computer languages.

Amen.

  Hans Aberg