Re: yytname woes

[Hans Åberg]

On Nov 10, 2023, at 01:57, James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org> wrote:
> 
> I can't seem to look up token names in yytname correctly using enum
> yytokentype.
…
> When I look up #899, NOT, I get "NOT".  But when I look up #900, NE, I
> get "'<'" because that's the next element in yytname (900 - 255).

In Bison, being compatible with POSIX Yacc, it is allowed use characters as 
token numbers, so those numbers are reserved for that purpose.