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Re: Bison patch for processing two successive actions


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: Bison patch for processing two successive actions
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:51:10 +0100
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>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

 > Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
 >> when I faced that bug, that it was a clear additional motivation to
 >> move the parsing of the action bodies _after_ the processing of the
 >> whole grammar.  It might be more code, but it's really simpler: the
 >> current handling is hairy.

 > Yes, I remember something similar.  However, last week when I tried to
 > write the "whole code", I found that it took too much time for me, and
 > what little bit I did get done was quite possibly buggy.  In contrast,
 > the fix I installed was easy to write and I have a much greater
 > confidence that I didn't introduce a bug.

 > I'd like to see the better/simpler solution done after 2.2 comes out,
 > if someone has the time to tackle the transformation.

I very much agree, I did not mean to ask for the rewrite now.  I too,
am waiting for 2.2!





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