Re: Parsing a strange list

[Hans Aberg]

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At 11:16 -0700 2001/08/14, Joris Esch wrote:
>I have a problem writing a parser for a list.
>
>The list contains the token name and the literal character '-'
>Whenever a '-' is seen, the two names should be
>combined.

Have you tried say:

%left name
%left '-'

%%
sentence:
    sentence name         { }
  | sentence '-' sentence { }
  | name                  { }
%%

-- As in the calculator example in the Bison manual.

  Hans Aberg