Re: prefix for yacc/bison

From: Erik de Castro Lopo (nospam_at_mega-nerd.com)
Date: 07/12/05 

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:57:19 +1000

"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> That's because it's (a) silly,

Its not silly. Its the most obvious and best way to include
two grammars in one program.

>(b) meaningless. Yacc and bison are
> work-alikes.

Actually no. The grammars that yacc accepts are a subset
of what bison accepts.

> Write code that both can parse. Don't write code that only
> one or the other can grok.

Nice idea in theory, not in practice. For instance Bison
now has a GLR parser as well as an LALR(1) parser. Yacc
only has the later.

To the original poster, the best advice you are going to get
is to just dump yacc and only support bison.

Erik

PS : comp.os.linux.development.apps might have been a more
     appropriate place than this. Also comp.unix.programmer. 

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