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Re: input to the parser (was Re: Now, to try again...)

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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
December 17, 2000 12:59
Subject:
Re: input to the parser (was Re: Now, to try again...)
Message ID:
5.0.1.4.0.20001217155117.0218d990@24.8.96.48
At 12:43 PM 12/17/00 -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
>Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> > and the above can come from
> >  * memory (C's zero terminated strings, blocks with lengths, other things
> >    native to other languages
> >  * files (by filename, file/socket handle, C FILE*, C++ istream, IO
> >    system appropriate to the language you're embedding in)
>
>That seems like only sources I can think of....

It's not unreasonable to add "generated on the fly by some code", though 
that could be considered an extension of files. (Since they'd probably come 
in via a PerlIO stream tied to a host function somehow)

					Dan

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