From: dickey@saltmine.radix.net   
      
   > [That was certainly an issue 20 years ago.  But today? -John]   
      
   not to the same extent.  However, for the same reasons then - one might have   
   a language which doesn't have the same syntax, e.g., it requires some sort   
   of mode-switch.  Rather than have very-large tables that can handle all   
   combinations (and mostly unused), you could switch lexers/parsers.   
      
   Now that I'm thinking of it, I have an application with more than 50   
   lexers - the syntax highlighting in vile:   
      
   	http://invisible-island.net/vile/   
      
   But since lexers are adequate for that, they don't need/use yacc.   
      
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