Re: Featuritism

[Akim Demaille]

| At 15:02 +0100 2002/01/09, Akim Demaille wrote:
| >In the wide range of possible definition of locations I forgot one
| >important: some scanners include yytext (well, a copy, of course) in
| >the position, so that when they output an error message, they also
| >include the text of the error:
| >
| >~/src/gawk % gawk 'BEGIN {error+}'                               nostromo
| >Err 1
| >gawk: cmd. line:1: BEGIN {error+}
| >gawk: cmd. line:1:              ^ parse error
| >
| >One such example is GNU AWK.  The scanner is written by hand and it
| >keeps the whole current line, but the idea applies equally.
| 
| The suggestion I gave is that one gives the location as a semi-open [begin,
| end) pair of yytext. Then just use then end or end-1 value to get that
| effect.

Great!  Brilliant!  We're saved!

It just has nothing to do with what I was showing.