From: Joel E. Denny Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:37:24 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Semicolon feature removal is not about future language support. X-Git-Tag: v2.4.1~1 X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/commitdiff_plain/d07932ef3d14aae86149b8ff65258f520ffa3998?ds=inline Semicolon feature removal is not about future language support. * NEWS: The semicolon feature is no longer active for newer languages, so don't claim that it causes trouble for them. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index b969ee69..d3cb7bb0 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2008-12-11 Joel E. Denny + + Semicolon feature removal is not about future language support. + * NEWS: The semicolon feature is no longer active for newer languages, + so don't claim that it causes trouble for them. + 2008-12-11 Joel E. Denny * gnulib: Update submodule to HEAD. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 72d73e13..d67e3f03 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -17,13 +17,12 @@ Bison News exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; }; - This prevents the future support for languages that do not use `;' - as C/C++/Java do. Yet some grammars still depend on this `feature'. - Bison 2.4.1 restores the previous behavior in the case of C output - (specifically, when neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent - command-line options are used) to leave more time for grammars - depending on the old behavior to be adjusted. Future releases of - Bison will disable this feature. + Some grammars still depend on this `feature'. Bison 2.4.1 restores + the previous behavior in the case of C output (specifically, when + neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent command-line options + are used) to leave more time for grammars depending on the old + behavior to be adjusted. Future releases of Bison will disable this + feature. ** A few minor improvements to the Bison manual.