2007-02-07 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>

[bison.git] / TODO

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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.
@@ -36,7 +29,7 @@ Catch up with yacc.c.
 
 **  GLR
 How would Paul like to display the conflicted actions?  In particular,
-what when two reductions are possible on a given look-ahead token, but one is
+what when two reductions are possible on a given lookahead token, but one is
 part of $default.  Should we make the two reductions explicit, or just
 keep $default?  See the following point.
 
@@ -56,6 +49,9 @@ 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
 
@@ -151,23 +147,6 @@ 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:
 
@@ -228,9 +207,6 @@ 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,
@@ -310,9 +286,8 @@ at the proper place to bison.simple. Ditto for YYACT_PROLOGUE.
 I was wondering what you think about adding YYACT_PROLOGUE/EPILOGUE
 to bison. If you're interested, I'll work on a patch.
 
-* Move to Graphviz
-Well, VCG seems really dead.  Move to Graphviz instead.  Also, equip
-the parser with a means to create the (visual) parse tree.
+* Better graphics
+Equip the parser with a means to create the (visual) parse tree.
 
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