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Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number.
From: |
Joel E. Denny |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number. |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Jan 2011 13:29:03 -0500 (EST) |
User-agent: |
Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Joel E. Denny wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Alex Rozenman wrote:
>
> > Regarding the documentation, I am not sure that we need to document this. It
> > looks like a regular bug fix.
> > It is a common sense that identifiers can not start from numbers.
>
> That doesn't explain why Bison now rejects --33-- as a symbol. Maybe we
> should fix that?
Here's what I had in mind:
id -|({letter}|-({letter}|-))({letter}|[-0-9])*
> > P.S. Or you meant other changes in documentation ?
>
> The following statement appears in NEWS under 2.5 but is now incorrect:
>
> grammar symbol names may include dashes in any position,
>
> A similar statement appears in the manual.
- [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number., Alex Rozenman, 2011/01/05
- Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number., Joel E. Denny, 2011/01/05
- Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number., Alex Rozenman, 2011/01/06
- Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number., Joel E. Denny, 2011/01/06
- Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number.,
Joel E. Denny <=
- Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number., Paul Eggert, 2011/01/08
- Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number., Joel E. Denny, 2011/01/08
- Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number., Paul Eggert, 2011/01/08
- Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number., Paul Eggert, 2011/01/08
- Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number., Joel E. Denny, 2011/01/08
- Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number., Joel E. Denny, 2011/01/08
- Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number., Paul Eggert, 2011/01/08
- Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number., Hans Aberg, 2011/01/08
- Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number., Joel E. Denny, 2011/01/08
- Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number., Joel E. Denny, 2011/01/08