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@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ I have seen messages like the following from GCC.
 <built-in>:0: fatal error: opening dependency file .deps/libltdl/argz.Tpo: No such file or directory
 
 
-** Document %define assert
-
 ** Discuss about %printer/%destroy in the case of C++.
 It would be very nice to provide the symbol classes with an operator<<
 and a destructor.  Unfortunately the syntax we have chosen for
@@ -56,6 +54,22 @@ number for the error token, which POSIX wants to be 256, but which
 Bison might renumber if the user used number 256.  Keep fix and doc?
 Throw away?
 
+Also, why don't we output the token name of the error token in the
+output?  It is explicitly skipped:
+
+      /* Skip error token and tokens without identifier.  */
+      if (sym != errtoken && id)
+
+Of course there are issues with name spaces, but if we disable we have
+something which seems to be more simpler and more consistent instead
+of the special case YYERRCODE.
+
+   enum yytokentype {
+     error = 256,
+     // ...
+   };
+
+
 We could (should?) also treat the case of the undef_token, which is
 numbered 257 for yylex, and 2 internal.  Both appear for instance in
 toknum:
@@ -157,12 +171,8 @@ management is performed once instead of three times).  I suggest that
 we do the same in yacc.c.
 
 ** yysyntax_error
-In lalr1.cc we invoke it with the translated lookahead (yytoken), and
-yacc.c uses yychar.  I don't see why.
-
-** yysyntax_error
-The use of switch to select yyfmt in lalr1.cc seems simpler than
-what's done in yacc.c.
+The code bw glr.c and yacc.c is really alike, we can certainly factor
+some parts.
 
 * Header guards
 
@@ -296,7 +306,8 @@ this issue.  Does anybody have it?
 Some history of Bison and some bibliography would be most welcome.
 Are there any Texinfo standards for bibliography?
 
-
+** %printer
+Wow, %printer is not documented.  Clearly mark YYPRINT as obsolete.
 
 * Java, Fortran, etc.