Re: Interactive parsing with Bison

[Satya]

> The kind of GUI that Satya (and I) are thinking of, is the one that
> one drops in some source files into the GUI, and it does the rest,
> computing the dependicies.

Lets not make too many promises here; and just say, this GUI will
enable developers to quickly write grammar specifications and generate
parsers for their languages; I guess the main applications of parsers
today are in writing small scripting languages as a part of bigger
software packages (like scripting in a CAD package or a database
package for scientific applications)... (am I right in saying that?)

lets also not say that we would compute all dependencies and compile
options for them; it is way out of scope;

the main aim of the GUI is to enable you to visualize how your grammar
is working for you -  visualize parses, and the ability to tweak bits
and pieces of your grammar to suit the language specification (*or
vice versa*) ;

I know its souding like a debugger, but it is not a full debugger in
the sense you cannot examine the implementation detail of the parser -
only the higher level working of the parse - just like the debug
traces produced by Bison if YYDEBUG is defined.