--*- outline -*-
-
* Short term
-** Use syntax_error from the scanner?
-This would provide a means to raise syntax error from function called
-from the scanner. Actually, there is no good solution to report a
-lexical error in general. Usually they are kept at the scanner level
-only, ignoring the guilty token. But that might not be the best bet,
-since we don't benefit from the syntactic error recovery.
-
-We still have the possibility to return an invalid token number, which
-does the trick. But then the error message from the parser is poor
-(something like "unexpected $undefined"). Since the scanner probably
-already reported the error, we should directly enter error-recovery,
-without reporting the error message (i.e., YYERROR's semantics).
-
-Back to lalr1.cc (whose name is now quite unfortunate, since it also
-covers lr and ielr), if we support exceptions from yylex, should we
-propose a lexical_error in addition to syntax_error? Should they have
-a common root, say parse_error? Should syntax_error be renamed
-syntactic_error for consistency with lexical_error?
-
** Variable names.
What should we name `variant' and `lex_symbol'?
** Use b4_symbol in all the skeleton
-Then remove the older system, including the tables generated by
-output.c
+Move its definition in the more standard places and deploy it in other
+skeletons. Then remove the older system, including the tables
+generated by output.c
** Update the documentation on gnu.org
** bench several bisons.
Enhance bench.pl with %b to run different bisons.
-** Use b4_symbol everywhere.
-Move its definition in the more standard places and deploy it in other
-skeletons.
-
* Various
-** YYPRINT
-glr.c inherits its symbol_print function from c.m4, which supports
-YYPRINT. But to use YYPRINT yytoknum is needed, which not defined by
-glr.c.
-
-Anyway, IMHO YYPRINT is obsolete and should be restricted to yacc.c.
+** Warnings
+Warnings about type tags that are used in printer and dtors, but not
+for symbols?
** YYERRCODE
Defined to 256, but not used, not documented. Probably the token
** YYFAIL
It is seems to be *really* obsolete now, shall we remove it?
-** YYBACKUP
-There is no test about it, no examples in the doc, and I'm not sure
-what it should look like. For instance what follows crashes.
-
- %error-verbose
- %debug
- %pure-parser
- %code {
- # include <stdio.h>
- # include <stdlib.h>
- # include <assert.h>
-
- static void yyerror (const char *msg);
- static int yylex (YYSTYPE *yylval);
- }
- %%
- exp:
- 'a' { printf ("a: %d\n", $1); }
- | 'b' { YYBACKUP('a', 123); }
- ;
- %%
- static int
- yylex (YYSTYPE *yylval)
- {
- static char const input[] = "b";
- static size_t toknum;
- assert (toknum < sizeof input);
- *yylval = (toknum + 1) * 10;
- return input[toknum++];
- }
-
- static void
- yyerror (const char *msg)
- {
- fprintf (stderr, "%s\n", msg);
- }
-
- int
- main (void)
- {
- yydebug = !!getenv("YYDEBUG");
- return yyparse ();
- }
-
** yychar == yyempty_
The code in yyerrlab reads:
* Header guards
-From Franc,ois: should we keep the directory part in the CPP guard?
+From Franรงois: should we keep the directory part in the CPP guard?
* Yacc.c: CPP Macros
find something clean (not like YYLSP_NEEDED...).
-* Installation
-
* Documentation
Before releasing, make sure the documentation ("Understanding your
parser") refers to the current `output' format.
* Extensions
-** Labeling the symbols
-Have a look at the Lemon parser generator: instead of $1, $2 etc. they
-can name the values. This is much more pleasant. For instance:
-
- exp (res): exp (a) '+' exp (b) { $res = $a + $b; };
-
-I love this. I have been bitten too often by the removal of the
-symbol, and forgetting to shift all the $n to $n-1. If you are
-unlucky, it compiles...
-
-But instead of using $a etc., we can use regular variables. And
-instead of using (), I propose to use `:' (again). Paul suggests
-supporting `->' in addition to `:' to separate LHS and RHS. In other
-words:
-
- r:exp -> a:exp '+' b:exp { r = a + b; };
-
-That requires an significant improvement of the grammar parser. Using
-GLR would be nice. It also requires that Bison know the type of the
-symbols (which will be useful for %include anyway). So we have some
-time before...
-
-Note that there remains the problem of locations: `@r'?
-
-
** $-1
We should find a means to provide an access to values deep in the
stack. For instance, instead of
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bison-patches/2009-09/msg00086.html
+
+Local Variables:
+mode: outline
+coding: utf-8
+End:
+
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