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Re: What are the benefits to migrate from Bison++ to Bison
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: What are the benefits to migrate from Bison++ to Bison |
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Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:09:25 +0200 |
Le 28 juin 2012 à 17:28, Timothy Madden a écrit :
> First, it looks like you want to migrate from old bison to the newer bison++.
Why do you qualify Bison as old, and Bison++ as newer? The
latest release of Bison for instance is about one month old.
> If that is so, it means you want to generate a bison C++ parser, instead of a
> bison C parser. This means your question is about whether or not to migrate
> from C to C++. It is not necessarily a topic for a bison discussion group,
> but it might still be considered somewhat related.
Bison does produce C++ parsers.
> Unlike in flex, the bison C++ interface is not marked as experimental, so you
> should be safe with it, but you should know that GLR parsers currently need
> the C interface from the old bison.
That is true and false. First, there is a GLR C++ parser,
that works. But it does not support the variants, that's
the only issue.