EBK CONCEPTS OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
EBK CONCEPTS OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780135102251
Author: Sebesta
Publisher: VST
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Chapter 4, Problem 13RQ

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The reason named constants are used:

The lexical analyzers collect the characters of the input string and group them into logical groups according to the pattern matching rules. These logical groupings are called as lexemes.

Lexical analyzer assigns some internal (numeric) codes to the lexemes (logical groupings) according to their structure. Instead of assigning numeric codes, named constants are used for token codes due to the following reasons:

  • Gives better readability to the code...

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