Re: Renaming parser file

[Akim Demaille]

Le 21 août 06 à 20:42, Joel E. Denny a écrit :

> On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Frans Englich wrote:
>
> > Any chance that %defines can be changed to also allow the name to be
> > explicitly specified?
>
> I'm not sure why %defines and -d and are different from --defines, -o,
> --output, and %output.  Reading the -d and --defines documentation  
> makes
> it seem intentional.  Since Paul and Akim know the history, I think
> they're probably best equipped to address this one.

I can't think of a good reason today :)  I'm definitely in favor
of supporting %defines "foo.h".  I don't know why there is a =
used for %output, it doesn't seem right to me, let's support
it in the place we used to accept it, but deprecate it.