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Lexical Scanning in Go - Rob Pike
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Rob Pike shows how the Go text/template lexer is built, using state functions, goroutines and channels. The talk was given at a Google Technology User Group in Sydney in 2011.
HN returns to it for years as an elegant introduction to writing a lexer that is easy to follow even without a parsing background.
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