Re: How to learn bison efficiently if I want to generate parse in C++?

[Philip Herron]

On 02/01/2010 04:22, John Levine wrote:
> > I want to learn to generate parser in C++. However, the book by Levine
> > only mentioned C++ in the last chapter, Chapter 9. All the examples in
> > Chapter 1-8 are in C. Instead of reading the book in order, could
> > somebody let me know if there is a faster way to learn bison to
> > generate parser in C++?
> >
> > http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596155988
> >      
> Nearly everything it says about C parsers also apply to C++ parsers,
> since nearly any C program is also a C++ program.  Just read the book,
> you'll learn lots of useful stuff.
>
> R's,
> John
>
>    
Yep John is right nothing changes on the bison side you just write your 
own code different since its a different language, even though C++ is 
really a very different language to C, though i don't have much 
experience with C++ parsers i am just an old man at heart using emacs, C 
and perl :P

http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/html_node/C_002b_002b-Parsers.html#C_002b_002b-Parsers

Though note it seems a C++ parser wants to be in its own class and might 
affect how non-terminal rules return values etc or tokens static data is 
accessed though you'll just have to look at examples.

The bison manual is very good, though i have heard that o'reilly book 
isnt that great i got the Lex and Yacc o'reilly book it was very good, 
short and sweet.