Re: lex function for values

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> It struck me that the value-rep branch would lend itself to a function
> of the form:
>
> bool lex_match_value (struct lexer* , union value *);
>
>
> which would be useful for matching either a string or a number.

(A width would also need to be passed in.)

Is this useful very often?
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