Re: Interactive parsing with Bison

[Satya]

>  > %token TOK_IF   "if"  { //Action for if }
>  > %token TOK_NUMBER "[0-9]+" { //action for number }
>
>  > though this would be breaking an age old tradition of separating the
>  > lexer and parser... (which has got its own advantages);
>
> This is indeed a tempting idea, but there are many pitfalls bu there.
> Let's serialize challenges...

I really dont know about the pitfalls, but Bison would go on to become
a self sufficient language tool if we can do this;

As for the challenges - backward compatibility would definitely be an
issue; hmm, I guess I dont have enough experience to think of
anymore.. :)

Satya.