ALL meanings of lex
lex
L l - noun Technical meaning of lex 1. (tool) A lexical analyser generator for Unix and its input language. There is a GNU version called flex and a version written in, and outputting, SML/NJ called ML-lex. A version, by David Poole at Montana has been retargeted to Turbo Pascal, ftp://iecc.com/pub/file/lyprg.zip. 2. (language, specification) The lexical specification language for COPS. 1
- noun lex (computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing. 1
- abbreviation LEX law1 . 1
- noun lex a system or body of laws 0
- noun lex a particular specified law 0
- abbreviation LEX law 0
- abbreviation LEX lexicon 0