Re: Flex recognition of "split" keywords

[John R. Levine]

> Under C++, one might write a stream that zips out the whitespace
> before the characters are handed over to the Flex scanner. -- But
> Fortran is perhaps more complex than that.

It is indeed, e.g.:

      foo bar = 'zip zap';

The six spaces before foo and the space between zip and zap are
significant, the rest aren't.  It gets worse.

>Perhaps it is better to write a scanner for a different language. :-)

Hey!  Why didn't the rest of us think of that?

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