the lexer hack
in C/C++ parsers, the backchannel from semantic analyzer to the lexer, necessary to disambiguate the syntax “A*B” as either ① product of variables A and B or ② declaration of variable B of type pointer-to-A
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in C/C++ parsers, the backchannel from semantic analyzer to the lexer, necessary to disambiguate the syntax “A*B” as either ① product of variables A and B or ② declaration of variable B of type pointer-to-A