Re: Bison 1.28b (fwd)

[Hans Aberg]

At 21:52 +0000 2001/08/04, marc-alexandre autret wrote:
>The interest of this feature is that you will always need similar extensions
>between the source and the header and it is automatic here.

Right, this is why you do not want it, as one may use C++ together with .h
or no extension at all (following the naming of the C++ standard headers,
then).

My compiler has defaults for C++ .cc, .cp, .cpp, .c++ file extensions, but
headers use .h or no extension.

> I have no example
>of the opposite.

So there is probably quite of a jumble out there.

>> Besides, this argument could be applied to remove the .yy feature.
>
>I think that this feature is important to differenciate the grammar files
>which contain C code or C++ code. As such, .yxx and all its friends must
>work.

But _why_ do you think it is important? -- Besides a longing for it, do you
have any factual basis for this wish?

I mean, the input language is the same, the Yacc grammar language, so that
cannot motivate .yxx input file extensions.

  Hans Aberg
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