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Lex vs Kex - What's the difference?

lex | kex |

As a verb lex

is to perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.

As a proper noun Lex

is a pet form of the male given name Alexander.

As a noun kex is

the dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.

lex

English

Verb

  • (computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
  • * 1994 , Donna K Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2)
    • Once this is done, each processor parses and lexes its own documents, using conventional programming techniques.
  • * 2004 , Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis
    • SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree.
  • * 2007 , Don Syme, Adam Granicz, Antonio Cisternino, Expert F#
    • Lexing and parsing do not have to be separated, and there are often convenient .NET methods for extracting information from text in particular formats...

    Derived terms

    * lexer

    See also

    * ----

    kex

    English

    Alternative forms

    * kix

    Noun

    (kexes)
  • The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
  • (obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
  • (rare) A dry husk or covering.
  • * 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 100-101:
    • On the bedside table a new package of cigarettes and a traveling clock had for neighbor a nicely wrapped box containing the green figurine of a girl skier which shone through the double kix .
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