The token type is usually denoted by an integer, one specific value for each syntactic type.
Following the convention used by yacc (see Section 3.3), the token type is assigned values greater
than 256. This will allow the one character operators, which are most frequent, to be denoted by the
token type itself. For example, consider statements
label1 : a = a + 5 ; goto label2;
and following illustrative assignments for syntactic types:
Syntactic typeTypeOperatorValue
IDENT257:0x3A
CONS258;0x3B
GOTO259
=
0x3D
+
0x28
The Scanner will send out the following tokens to the parser.
Token type
2570x3A2570x3D2570x282580x3B
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