Re: Support emplace with multiple arguments

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Askar,

> Le 21 déc. 2018 à 13:34, Askar Safin <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Hi. I tried this patch and I want to share my experience.



> So, I tried to get this patch. Your message ( 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2018-12/msg00052.html ) says that 
> commit id is 1f86c28ea2ff69f68a569568ad6890dee3ac9684. So I tried to find 
> this commit at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bison.git and I was unable to 
> do that.

Sorry I was unclear.  I wrote

  I have a draft for it in my repo, as "make-symbol".

which refers to my GitHub repo.  I'm not particularly happy to work with 
GitHub, but I did this so that I can have some CI to check Bison.  And several 
users have already forked it.  It can be convenient.

https://github.com/akimd/bison/tree/make-symbol

> So, I understand why people didn't try your patch. They probably simply was 
> unable to download it.

I also asked for comments and opinions.  That's the idea of peer-reviewing 
lists such as bison-patches.  I much prefer educated answers from people who 
tried it, like you did, but opinions are already useful feedback.


> Okey, so I was able to apply patch. And I wrote the following code: (see 
> attachments). And it works. So, yes, I like the patch.
> 
> But I will not use this functionality anyway. Here is why.

So I don't get comments about the patch itself from you either :(


> I decided to make my generated Bison files as general as possible. So, I use 
> %skeleton "glr.cc". Because it is quite possible that some day I will need 
> parser to some non-LALR1 language. But this means that:
> * I cannot use %define api.value.type variant
> * I have to pass around std::variant, std::string etc using raw pointers
> * And thus I cannot use %define api.token.constructor
> * And also I cannot use %define api.value.automove

Yes, proper support for variant in glr.cc would be wonderful.  Currently it's 
more a kludge than a proper skeleton written from scratch.


Thanks for your answer anyway.

Cheers.