From Franc,ois: should we keep the directory part in the CPP guard?
-* readpipe
+* Yacc.c: CPP Macros
-It should be replaced to avoid tmp files and to improve portability.
-Also, as it is it does not call error () when execve fails, and
-therefore, running M4='m4 --version' bison will silently fail instead
-of:
-
- bison: cannot run m4 --version: No such file or directory
-
-BTW: I would really like to be able to pass arguments to m4...
+Do some people use YYPURE, YYLSP_NEEDED like we do in the test suite?
+They should not: it is not documented. But if they need to, let's
+find something clean (not like YYLSP_NEEDED...).
* URGENT: Documenting C++ output
* Documentation
-Before releasing, make sure the documentation refers to the current
-`output' format.
-
-
-* Error messages
-Some are really funky. For instance
-
- type clash (`%s' `%s') on default action
-
-is really weird. Revisit them all.
-
-
-* read_pipe.c
-This is not portable to DOS for instance. Implement a more portable
-scheme. Sources of inspiration include GNU diff, and Free Recode.
-
-
-* value_components_used
-Was defined but not used: where was it coming from? It can't be to
-check if %union is used, since the user is free to $<foo>n on her
-union, doesn't she?
+Before releasing, make sure the documentation ("Understanding your
+parser") refers to the current `output' format.
* GLR & C++
* Extensions
-** yyerror, yysymprint interface
+** %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.
+
+** $foo
+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...
+
+** $-1
+We should find a means to provide an access to values deep in the
+stack. For instance, instead of
+
+ baz: qux { $$ = $<foo>-1 + $<bar>0 + $1; }
+
+we should be able to have:
+
+ foo($foo) bar($bar) baz($bar): qux($qux) { $baz = $foo + $bar + $qux; }
+
+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 recommended
-to #define yyerror and yyprint to steal internal variables...
+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
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
+must be in the scanner: we must not parse what is in a switched off
+part of %if. Akim Demaille thinks it should be in the parser, so as
+to avoid falling into another CPP mistake.
+
+** -D, --define-muscle NAME=VALUE
+To define muscles via cli. Or maybe support directly NAME=VALUE?
+
+
* Unit rules
Maybe we could expand unit rules, i.e., transform
Show reductions. []
* Broken options ?
-** %no-lines [ok]
** %no-parser []
-** %pure-parser []
** %token-table []
-** Options which could use parse_dquoted_param ().
-Maybe transferred in lex.c.
-*** %skeleton [ok]
-*** %output []
-*** %file-prefix []
-*** %name-prefix []
-
** Skeleton strategy. []
Must we keep %no-parser?
%token-table?
-*** New skeletons. []
* src/print_graph.c
Find the best graph parameters. []
** tests/pure-parser.at []
New tests.
-* input synclines
-Some users create their foo.y files, and equip them with #line. Bison
-should recognize these, and preserve them.
-
* BTYacc
-See if we can integrate backtracking in Bison. Contact the BTYacc
-maintainers.
+See if we can integrate backtracking in Bison. Charles-Henri de
+Boysson <de-boy_c@epita.fr> is working on this, and already has some
+results. Vadim Maslow, the maintainer of BTYacc was contacted, and we
+stay in touch with him. Adjusting the Bison grammar parser will be
+needed to support some extra BTYacc features. This is less urgent.
** Keeping the conflicted actions
First, analyze the differences between byacc and btyacc (I'm referring
projects / bison.git / blobdiff