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For questions relating to tokens, or the data structure that contains information about the raw components of source code

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Negative literals, or unary negated positive literals?

If you do, then x-1 will be lexed as two tokens ─ an identifier x followed by a literal -1 ─ and then you can't parse it as a binary operator expression like x - 1, unless your parser has a weird special …
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Do parsers typically need access to all tokens?

What influences the decision? Some languages cannot be lexed without also being parsed (or in the notable case of TeX, cannot be lexed without also being executed). In this case, the only option is …
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