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diff --git a/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/the-parser.md b/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/the-parser.md index c0f2a071b53..da318c9ef3a 100644 --- a/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/the-parser.md +++ b/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/the-parser.md @@ -7,10 +7,11 @@ The very first thing the compiler does is take the program (in Unicode characters) and turn it into something the compiler can work with more conveniently than strings. This happens in two stages: Lexing and Parsing. -Lexing takes strings and turns them into streams of tokens. For example, +Lexing takes strings and turns them into streams of [tokens]. For example, `a.b + c` would be turned into the tokens `a`, `.`, `b`, `+`, and `c`. The lexer lives in [`librustc_lexer`][lexer]. +[tokens]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/rustc_ast/token/index.html [lexer]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/rustc_lexer/index.html Parsing then takes streams of tokens and turns them into a structured |