Scanner and parser interaction
问题 I am new to flex/bison. Reading books, it seems that in nearly all compiler implementations, the parser interacts with the scanner in a "coroutine" manner, that whenever the parser needs a token, it calls the scanner to get one, and left the scanner aside when it's busy on shift/reduce. A natural question is that why not let the scanner produces the token-stream (from the input byte-stream) as a whole, and then pass the entire token-stream to the parser, thus there is no explicit interaction