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19th August 2021 - Link Blog

lex.go in json5-go. This archived GitHub repository has a beautifully clean and clear example of a hand-written lexer in Go, for the JSON5 format (JSON + comments + multi-line strings). parser.go is worth a look too.

Posted 19th August 2021 at 8:15 pm

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