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Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+
From: |
Joel E. Denny |
Subject: |
Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+ |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:16:59 -0500 (EST) |
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Joel E. Denny wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Joel E. Denny wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:
> >
> > > "Joel E. Denny" <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > > It seems to me that the following features ought to be documented as
> > > > experimental since they have been somewhat controversial even among
> > > > Bison
> > > > developers:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Default %destructor's and %printer's. These are currently declared
> > > > with <*> and <>.
> > > >
> > > > 2. The prologue alternatives: %code, %requires, %provides, and
> > > > %code-top.
> > >
> > > Yes.
>
> Well, I've sat on this long enough.
>
> > I just remembered that %code and %requires are used in the C++ examples in
> > the documentation. Without a rewrite of those examples, %requires is
> > necessary because there's no other directive that inserts user code into
> > the parser header file.
> >
> > I'm not going to rewrite the C++ examples. Is it still ok to mark the
> > prologue alternatives as experimental?
>
> For a test release, this should be fine.
>
> > Also, I'm thinking of commenting out any mention of Java from the
> > documentation on the prologue alternatives. I doubt the Java skeleton
> > will be complete in the next release, and we might forget to remove the
> > documentation before then. Agreed?
>
> We can add it back later if necessary.
The above message was rejected as stock spam again, so I've attached the
patch.
exper-patch
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- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, (continued)
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Joel E. Denny, 2006/12/02
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Hans Aberg, 2006/12/02
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Joel E. Denny, 2006/12/02
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Hans Aberg, 2006/12/02
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Joel E. Denny, 2006/12/02
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Hans Aberg, 2006/12/02
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Joel E. Denny, 2006/12/02
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Hans Aberg, 2006/12/02
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Paolo Bonzini, 2006/12/02
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Joel E. Denny, 2006/12/02
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Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Hans Aberg, 2006/12/03
Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Hans Aberg, 2006/12/04
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Joel E. Denny, 2006/12/04
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Hans Aberg, 2006/12/05
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Joel E. Denny, 2006/12/05
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Hans Aberg, 2006/12/06
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Joel E. Denny, 2006/12/06
- Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+, Hans Aberg, 2006/12/06