Re: Enhancement request: enabling Variant in C parsers

[Hans Åberg]

> On 23 Aug 2018, at 13:14, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Le 23 août 2018 à 10:34, Hans Åberg <address@hidden> a écrit :
>> 
>> This style with local.mk perhaps comes from an age where Automake was not as 
>> smart. I use a Makefile.am.
> 
> Totally unrelated.  I use local.mk (should be local.am) because it’s
> included from the top-level Makefile.am.  There’s a single Makefile
> in the end, and that’s on purpose.  I do not want recursive Makefiles.

Why not? I use local.mk, too, in simple cases.

>> In addition, it might benefit from using say a 
>> #define YYSTYPE double
>> to illustrate how one sets ones own type.
> 
> What example are you referring to?  Also, you may have noticed that
> I try to avoid using the preprocessor in favor of Bison directives.

For the example, you do not set the type explicitly, so it ends up as a 
default, so those that want to change need to go to the manual for that.

>> so perhaps it should be replaced with a 
>> %semantic-type {...}
>> or something.
> 
> ‘something’ is '%define api.value.type'.

So use it in the example, simply for illustration of the feature.