Re: [RFA] Java skeleton

[Paolo Bonzini]

Joel E. Denny wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> > > Your Java skeletons do allow users to add members to the parser and lexer
> > > classes, so it seems to me that you have much more to worry about.  I find
> > > it hard to believe that you will never decide to add some new really useful
> > > public method.
> > I find it hard that this wouldn't have been added already in the C skeleton.
> > :-)
>
> Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you're saying.

I find it hard to think of one more function that would be added and not 
be under the control of a % directive.

> But if the Bison user defines his own class to wrap the parser class (like 
> the parser driver), he can create whatever interface he likes for the 
> parser user.

I think if we can live without the parser driver, it is better (and the 
fact that Java uses only virtual methods makes me believe this is the 
case).  I don't know of other parser generators for Java that require a 
parser driver.

Paolo