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<span class="emphasis"><em>PrimitiveLexer</em></span> is the most basic building block
that the client uses to build more complex lexer components.
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<a class="link" href="lexer.html" title="Lexer"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">Lexer</span></code></a>
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<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">traits</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">is_primitive_lexer</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">L</span><span class="special">>::</span><span class="identifier">type</span></code>
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Metafunction that evaluates to <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">mpl</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">true_</span></code>
if a certain type, <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">L</span></code>,
is a PrimitiveLexer, <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">mpl</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">false_</span></code>
otherwise (See <a href="../../../../../../../../libs/mpl/doc/refmanual/integral-constant.html" target="_top">MPL
Boolean Constant</a>).
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The following lexer components conform to this model:
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character literals (i.e. <code class="computeroutput"><span class="char">'x'</span></code>),
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">char_</span></code>,
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string literals (<code class="computeroutput"><span class="string">"abc"</span></code>),
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">basic_string</span><span class="special"><></span></code>,
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">string</span></code>
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<span class="bold"><strong>FIXME</strong></span> Add more links to <span class="emphasis"><em>PrimitiveLexer</em></span>
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