find something clean (not like YYLSP_NEEDED...).
-* URGENT: Documenting C++ output
-Write a first documentation for C++ output.
+* 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.
+* lalr1.cc
+** vector
+Move to using vector, drop stack.hh.
-* GLR & C++
-Currently, the GLR parser cannot compile with a C++ compiler.
-
+** I18n
+Catch up with yacc.c.
* Report
** GLR
How would Paul like to display the conflicted actions? In particular,
-what when two reductions are possible on a given lookahead, 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.
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
-** %destructor
-I think we should document it as experimental, and allow its use in
-the next releases. But we also need to port it to GLR. What about
-lalr1.cc? Well, read what Hans reported, maybe we don't want
-%detructor. On the other hand, there is no reason not to provide it:
-users can avoid its use.
+* Extensions
-** $foo
+** 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:
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
Or something like this.
-
-** yysymprint interface
-It should be improved, in particular when using Bison features such as
-locations, and YYPARSE_PARAMS. For the time being, it is almost
-recommended to yyprint to steal internal variables...
-
-** Several %unions
-I think this is a pleasant (but useless currently) feature, but in the
-future, I want a means to %include other bits of grammars, and _then_
-it will be important for the various bits to define their needs in
-%union.
-
-When implementing multiple-%union support, bare the following in mind:
-
-- when --yacc, this must be flagged as an error. Don't make it fatal
- though.
-
-- The #line must now appear *inside* the definition of yystype.
- Something like
-
- {
- #line 12 "foo.y"
- int ival;
- #line 23 "foo.y"
- char *sval;
- }
-
** %if and the like
It should be possible to have %if/%else/%endif. The implementation is
not clear: should it be lexical or syntactic. Vadim Maslow thinks it
** -D, --define-muscle NAME=VALUE
To define muscles via cli. Or maybe support directly NAME=VALUE?
+** XML Output
+There are couple of available extensions of Bison targeting some XML
+output. Some day we should consider including them. One issue is
+that they seem to be quite orthogonal to the parsing technique, and
+seem to depend mostly on the possibility to have some code triggered
+for each reduction. As a matter of fact, such hooks could also be
+used to generate the yydebug traces. Some generic scheme probably
+exists in there.
+
+XML output for GNU Bison and gcc
+ http://www.cs.may.ie/~jpower/Research/bisonXML/
+
+XML output for GNU Bison
+ http://yaxx.sourceforge.net/
* Unit rules
Maybe we could expand unit rules, i.e., transform
which is based on Bison.
<http://www.goice.co.jp/member/mo/hack-progs/bison-java.html>
-Sébastien Serrurier (serrur_s@epita.fr) is working on this: he is
+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.
PDP-10 ports :-) but they should probably be documented
somewhere.
-
+ More importantly, Bison does not currently allow NUL bytes in
+ tokens, either via escapes (e.g., "x\0y") or via a NUL byte in
+ the source code. This should get fixed.
* --graph
-Show reductions. []
+Show reductions.
* Broken options ?
-** %no-parser []
-** %token-table []
-** Skeleton strategy. []
-Must we keep %no-parser?
- %token-table?
+** %no-parser
+** %token-table
+** Skeleton strategy
+Must we keep %no-parser? %token-table?
* src/print_graph.c
-Find the best graph parameters. []
-
-* doc/bison.texinfo
-** Update
-informations about ERROR_VERBOSE. []
-** Add explanations about
-skeleton muscles. []
-%skeleton. []
-
-* testsuite
-** tests/pure-parser.at []
-New tests.
+Find the best graph parameters.
* BTYacc
See if we can integrate backtracking in Bison. Charles-Henri de
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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