COMPILER DESIGN

INTERMEDIATE CODE GENERATION

SYNTAX TREES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When expression prod=4*2 is tokenized then what is the token category of 4?
A
Identifier
B
Integer Literal
C
Keyword
D
Token Literal
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A Token is a syntactic category that forms a class of lexemes. These are the “nouns", “verbs", and other parts of speech for the programming language. In a practical programming language, there are a very large number of lexemes, perhaps even an infinite number.

Detailed explanation-2: -In computer science, lexical analysis, lexing or tokenization is the process of converting a sequence of characters (such as in a computer program or web page) into a sequence of lexical tokens (strings with an assigned and thus identified meaning).

Detailed explanation-3: -In programming language, keywords, constants, identifiers, strings, numbers, operators and punctuations symbols can be considered as tokens.

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