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Re: Prefer error-verbose to error_verbose


From: Joel E. Denny
Subject: Re: Prefer error-verbose to error_verbose
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:59:41 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Akim Demaille wrote:

> I don't like too much this approach, I prefer simply welcoming dashes in the
> set of letters that can compose symbol names.  Of course we would have to have
> warnings and errors in Yacc mode, but that should not be hard, we certainly
> have one well defined point by which we always pass to make a symbol name.  I
> also like that identifiers and directives are only separated by %.
> 
> But what do others think?

What about tokens and the union name?  These can't have dashes.  Do we let 
the compiler catch that, or should Bison?

> There is one clear downside: named references.  The period is already causing
> nasty issues when reading { .. $foo.bar .. }, introducing dashes will not
> improve the situation { .. $foo-bar .. }.  I would stick to the principle that
> identifier in the action should stick to C symbols, that exclude dashes and
> periods, so this was { .. $[foo]-bar .. } "of course".

I agree.  Now we need to consider the "misleading reference" complaints 
again.




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