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 Bison News
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+Changes in version 1.875b:
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+* Semicolons are now allowed before "|" in grammar rules, as POSIX requires.
+
 Changes in version 1.875a, 2003-02-01:
 
-* %expect-count violations are now just warnings, not errors, for
-  compatibility with Bison 1.75 and earlier (when there are
+* For now, %expect-count violations are now just warnings, not errors.
+  This is for compatibility with Bison 1.75 and earlier (when there are
   reduce/reduce conflicts) and with Bison 1.30 and earlier (when there
-  are too many or too few shift/reduce conflicts).
+  are too many or too few shift/reduce conflicts).  However, in future
+  versions of Bison we plan to improve the %expect machinery so that
+  these violations will become errors again.
 
 * New configure option --disable-yacc, to disable installation of the
   yacc command and -ly library introduced in 1.875 for POSIX conformance.