Re: Language Versions

[Akim Demaille]

Arthur,

> Le 15 sept. 2022 à 22:59, Arthur Schwarz <home@slipbits.com> a écrit :
> 
>> Hi;
>> 
>>> This is no more than a single line in the document and/or part of --help. 
>>> It tells your audience what compilers they can use and what language 
>>> elements are available. All with a single line.
>> 
>> No can do.  That's something related to the skeletons.  So I will complete 
>> their documentation, yes.
> 
> This puzzles me. You can't put a single line in for each language telling the 
> user what the baseline language is?

Yes, sorry, that was indeed a poor choice of word.

I meant "No, I don't want to do that".

Currently --help says nothing about the existing skeletons, and I don't want to 
start.  That's rather something belongs to the documentation.

> I don't believe this has anything to do with the skeletons,

Yes it does.

> unless the skeletons are linked to a different language,

Yes they are.

> and in this case the baseline language is the language version for the 
> skeleton. I am truly mystified. You have already said what the Bison language 
> version choices are (see below), what is being asked for is that  you include 
> them in the manual. Something like, "Bison output is compilable using version 
> C(), C++(), and D()", where the language version used is inserted in the 
> "()". You might need to use prettier words but the sense is that you know the 
> answer, and the user's of Bison should know it also.

Again, I agree you do have a point, and I will write some documentation about 
that.  However, I can't remember someone complaining about the targeted 
language of a given skeleton, so your point is somewhat theoretical.

Cheers.