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Re: Dubious features
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Joel E. Denny |
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Re: Dubious features |
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Wed, 7 Jun 2006 05:00:08 -0400 (EDT) |
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Akim Demaille wrote:
> always used this "feature" (which at the time was rather an exploit
> from a loophole in the parser) with a single id: the name I wanted to
> give to the union.
Is there a difference between that and a subsequent typedef YYSTYPE id in
a literal block?
> As for the first point, I had received complaints from users who
> disliked the fact that they faced errors with yacc: they wanted bison
> to be more yackish.
POSIX specifies this? I didn't find it, but it's like searching for a
needle in a haystack. Or is this just a common convention in yacc
implementations? I can't imagine the original point of it.
Joel
Re: Dubious features, Paul Eggert, 2006/06/07