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@@ -14,13 +14,6 @@ find something clean (not like YYLSP_NEEDED...).
 
 * Installation
 
-** Disable installation of yacc.
-
-Add an option to 'configure' that allows people to install Bison
-without installing the yacc wrapper script or the rarely-used little
-yacc library required by Posix.  This is for people who prefer some
-other implementation of yacc.
-
 * Documentation
 Before releasing, make sure the documentation ("Understanding your
 parser") refers to the current `output' format.
@@ -29,9 +22,6 @@ parser") refers to the current `output' format.
 ** vector
 Move to using vector, drop stack.hh.
 
-** I18n
-Catch up with yacc.c.
-
 * Report
 
 **  GLR
@@ -56,33 +46,11 @@ Provide better assistance for understanding the conflicts by providing
 a sample text exhibiting the (LALR) ambiguity.  See the paper from
 DeRemer and Penello: they already provide the algorithm.
 
+** Statically check for potential ambiguities in GLR grammars.  See
+<http://www.i3s.unice.fr/~schmitz/papers.html#expamb> for an approach.
 
-* 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'?
 
+* Extensions
 
 ** $-1
 We should find a means to provide an access to values deep in the
@@ -151,23 +119,6 @@ Are there any Texinfo standards for bibliography?
 * Java, Fortran, etc.
 
 
-** Java
-
-There are a couple of proposed outputs:
-
-- BYACC/J
-  which is based on Byacc.
-  <http://troi.lincom-asg.com/~rjamison/byacc/>
-
-- Bison Java
-  which is based on Bison.
-  <http://www.goice.co.jp/member/mo/hack-progs/bison-java.html>
-
-Sebastien Serrurier (serrur_s@epita.fr) is working on this: he is
-expected to contact the authors, design the output, and implement it
-into Bison.
-
-
 * Coding system independence
 Paul notes:
 
@@ -189,10 +140,9 @@ Paul notes:
 Show reductions.
 
 * Broken options ?
-** %no-parser
 ** %token-table
 ** Skeleton strategy
-Must we keep %no-parser?  %token-table?
+Must we keep %token-table?
 
 * src/print_graph.c
 Find the best graph parameters.
@@ -228,9 +178,6 @@ It is unfortunate that there is a total order for precedence.  It
 makes it impossible to have modular precedence information.  We should
 move to partial orders (sounds like series/parallel orders to me).
 
-This will be possible with a Bison parser for the grammar, as it will
-make it much easier to extend the grammar.
-
 ** Correlation b/w precedence and associativity
 Also, I fail to understand why we have to assign the same
 associativity to operators with the same precedence.  For instance,
@@ -315,22 +262,19 @@ Equip the parser with a means to create the (visual) parse tree.
 
 -----
 
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-Inc.
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