Re: nonpure/pure/push

[Joel E. Denny]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Bob Rossi wrote:

> It is possible that we could make all 3 options use the ADT. The nonpure
> parser would then create a global instance of the ADT. Then we could
> #define the old variables with something like 
> '#define yychar (globalvar->yychar)' to satisfy code that users rely on.
> The code in yyparse would then change to something like
> (globalvar->yychar) instead of simply yychar.

This might cause trouble for yacc (a nonpure parser).  That is, you need 
to be able to do this in the scanner:

  extern YYSTYPE yylval;

Joel