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RE: Enhancement request: enabling Variant in C parsers
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Victor Khomenko |
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RE: Enhancement request: enabling Variant in C parsers |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:09:40 +0000 |
Hi Akim, Rici,
Re trailing return types: It’s a minor issue (in the context of bison manual),
let’s agree to disagree to avoid starting a full-blown religious warfare.
Re flex: The whole flex/bison interface is clunky, so no surprise people invent
tricks. Some parser generators (ANTLR, JavaCC) solve this problem by
integrating the scanner and parser, which dramatically increases the usability.
Flex/bison are like racing cars, but most users don't drive racing cars. The
mundane things like having a few extra generated includes, a few extra
dependencies in the make file, an extra hour setting things up, make a lot of
difference.
Re AST: I used to think it’s relatively independent from parsing, and in my
code it is. Then you told me that AST should have location information and
special error nodes, which make them intertwined with parsing... Anyway, it was
an idea for future development, maybe distant future. (BTW, ANTLR has cool
features related to ASTs.)
Cheers,
Victor.
- Re: Enhancement request: enabling Variant in C parsers, Akim Demaille, 2018/10/24
- RE: Enhancement request: enabling Variant in C parsers, Victor Khomenko, 2018/10/24
- c++: std::to_string is available in C++11 (Was: Enhancement request: enabling Variant in C parsers), Akim Demaille, 2018/10/24
- doc: mention earlier how to disable the generation of location.hh (was: Enhancement request: enabling Variant in C parsers), Akim Demaille, 2018/10/24
- Re: Enhancement request: enabling Variant in C parsers, Akim Demaille, 2018/10/24
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- RE: Enhancement request: enabling Variant in C parsers, Victor Khomenko, 2018/10/25
- Re: Enhancement request: enabling Variant in C parsers, Rici Lake, 2018/10/25
- Re: Enhancement request: enabling Variant in C parsers, Akim Demaille, 2018/10/25
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- Re: Enhancement request: enabling Variant in C parsers, Akim Demaille, 2018/10/26
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- RE: Enhancement request: enabling Variant in C parsers, Victor Khomenko, 2018/10/30
- Re: Enhancement request: enabling Variant in C parsers, Yijun . Yu, 2018/10/30