Re: FYI: default %printer/%destructor

[Hans Aberg]

On 22 Nov 2006, at 17:27, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> > Or vice versa: choosing a Unicode representation makes ASCII  
> > unnecessary,
> > ecept for those poor guys that do not have an UTF-8 editor. But  
> > then for this
> > latter, one might make separate Unicode-ASCII translators.
>
> If the ASCII looks fine and is necessary anyway, why bother with  
> Unicode?

Don't know. I suggest to use Unicode when the ASCII isn't necessary  
and looks awful.

> > > Second, I don't see how this addresses the issue
> > > we're discussing anyway: names for semantic values and locations.
> >
> > Overuse of tokens may cause grammar conflicts.
>
> That sounds nice in general, but I don't see a solution to our problem
> developing.

You insist on using "( )", etc.

> > It has popped up from time [to time] in Help-Bison, and the last  
> > time Akim seemed to be
> > interested
>
> If you're referring to the discussion in March, I see that he asked  
> how it
> would work, which I still don't understand.  I saw no expression of
> interest afterwards.  Did I miss a message?

I saw no reaction after my EBNF proposal. This is why I cc him and  
Paul Eggert, to see if there can be clarification. Should Bison have  
EBNF sometime in the future or not, that is the question.

  Hans Aberg