[Python-Dev] Re: Automatic flex interface for Python?

[Greg Ewing]

> you can do that without even looking at the characters?

No, but the original complaint was that immutability
of strings made lexing difficult. I was pointing
out that it's possible to do it without mutating
anything per-character.

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