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		steveklabnik on April 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fearless concurrency with Rust > Rust's grammar is also context-free, as far as I know. I believe bytestrings are context-sensitive :( I don't remember the exact details here, so I could be wrong. But other than that...

nikomatsakis on April 10, 2015 | [–]

Technically, byte-strings (and nested comments) mean the lexer is not regular, but the grammar is still context-free. But anyway, parsing is not typically the bottle-neck these days.

pcwalton on April 10, 2015 | | [–]

Oh, that's just lexing though.

Gankro on April 10, 2015 | [–]

raw strings: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/grammar/ra...

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