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 * Short term
 ** Graphviz display code thoughts
 The code for the --graph option is over two files: print_graph, and
-graphviz. I believe this is because Bison used to also produce VCG graphs,
-but since this is no longer true, maybe we could consider these files for
-fusion.
+graphviz. This is because Bison used to also produce VCG graphs, but since
+this is no longer true, maybe we could consider these files for fusion.
 
-Little effort factoring seems to have been given to factoring in these files,
-and their print-xml and print counterpart. We would very much like to re-use
-the pretty format of states from .output in the .dot
+An other consideration worth noting is that print_graph.c (correct me if I
+am wrong) should contain generic functions, whereas graphviz.c and other
+potential files should contain just the specific code for that output
+format. It will probably prove difficult to tell if the implementation is
+actually generic whilst only having support for a single format, but it
+would be nice to keep stuff a bit tidier: right now, the construction of the
+bitset used to show reductions is in the graphviz-specific code, and on the
+opposite side we have some use of \l, which is graphviz-specific, in what
+should be generic code.
 
-Also, the underscore in print_graph.[ch] isn't very fitting considering
-the dashes in the other filenames.
+Little effort seems to have been given to factoring these files and their
+rint{,-xml} counterpart. We would very much like to re-use the pretty format
+of states from .output for the graphs, etc.
+
+Also, the underscore in print_graph.[ch] isn't very fitting considering the
+dashes in the other filenames.
+
+Since graphviz dies on medium-to-big grammars, maybe consider an other tool?
 
 ** push-parser
 Check it too when checking the different kinds of parsers.  And be
@@ -48,9 +59,6 @@ Get rid of it.  The original idea is nice, but actually it makes
 the code harder to follow, and uselessly different from the other
 skeletons.
 
-** Variable names.
-What should we name `variant' and `lex_symbol'?
-
 ** Get rid of fake #lines [Bison: ...]
 Possibly as simple as checking whether the column number is nonnegative.
 
@@ -77,9 +85,6 @@ since it is no longer bound to a particular parser, it's just a
 ** Rename LR0.cc
 as lr0.cc, why upper case?
 
-** bench several bisons.
-Enhance bench.pl with %b to run different bisons.
-
 * Various
 ** YYERRCODE
 Defined to 256, but not used, not documented.  Probably the token
@@ -143,12 +148,6 @@ really possible?  The test suite does not exercise this case.
 This shows that it would be interesting to manage to install skeleton
 coverage analysis to the test suite.
 
-** Table definitions
-It should be very easy to factor the definition of the various tables,
-including the separation bw declaration and definition.  See for
-instance b4_table_define in lalr1.cc.  This way, we could even factor
-C vs. C++ definitions.
-
 * From lalr1.cc to yacc.c
 ** Single stack
 Merging the three stacks in lalr1.cc simplified the code, prompted for
@@ -274,9 +273,6 @@ Paul notes:
         tokens, either via escapes (e.g., "x\0y") or via a NUL byte in
         the source code.  This should get fixed.
 
-* --graph
-Show reductions.
-
 * Broken options ?
 ** %token-table
 ** Skeleton strategy