LEX rule, anyone???

[Tom Stockfisch]

In article <1989Dec6.180833.2985 at twwells.com> bill at twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:

>... start states are not reliable with lex. After
>being bitten by them for the n'th time, I switched to flex.

I know of a bug that involves variable length trailing contexts (this
happens in flex, too), but I've never run into a bug with start states.
Can you give specifics?
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