Re: Using %printer

[Frans Englich]

On Thursday 14 September 2006 09:09, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>> "Frans" == Frans Englich <address@hidden> writes:
>  >
>  > What exactly does it do, it allows one to at runtime customize the
>  > message Bison uses for a token(and perhaps even terminal?)? For
>  > example, that instead of that Bison says "Unexpected <numeric
>  > literal>" one can make it say "Unexpected '2.3'", right?
>
> No, rather it is meant to make the debugging traces (yydebug) more
> readable.  It is a replacement for YYPRINT which works for tokens
> only.

I'm sure that's practical, but it surely would be cool to be able to craft 
better messages!


Cheers,

                Frans