Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+

[Joel E. Denny]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Hans Aberg wrote:

> > For verbatim strings:
> > 
> >   %define "NAME" "STRING"
> 
> No, just one line. This why <code> had to be added.

Do you have a specific need for multiline strings that are not parsed as 
code?

> > For code that needs to be parsed:
> > 
> >   %define "NAME" { CODE }
> > 
> > How does calling it %code in the second case solve the problem of multiple
> > languages?
> 
> Because parsing of the code part needs to be changed according to language.
> For a macro define, that seems to be a poor practice.

So the issue isn't with multiple languages?  It's with parsing CODE at all 
when the directive is named %define?

This doesn't bother me.  { CODE } is always parsed no matter where it 
appears in the Bison grammar file.