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a semantic question.

Integer literals are generally lexed with regular expressions, as in Python.

Evaluation

As with other literals, integer literals are generally evaluated at compile time, as part of the semantic analysis phase. In some cases this semantic analysis is done in the lexer, immediately on recognition of an integer literal, while in other cases this is deferred until the parsing stage, or until after the

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