Re: [bison-1_29-branch] Change location symbol.

[akim]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:47:41PM +0000, Pascal Bart wrote:
> 
> akim>Yes, we talked about something like this, but it was science fiction, not
> akim>computer science.
> 
> I'm not sure, we talk about the same thing, you say, one guy wanted to be
> able to change the location symbol, and that could be nice to do it, so I
> did. This day, it wasn't science fiction, the question was not to use more
> language for the Bison's parser, but to help one brave guy to use Bison
> with Perl.
> 
> I'm disappointed, you do not remember it, but probably I've misunderstood.
> :(

We misunderstand each other.  I _do_ remember.  It's just not the right
time, and it's not even sure we need it.  I've thrown a lot of ideas,
which does not mean you have to implement them.  Just keep them in mind
until someone says ``Hey!  I need this, so it'd be cool if...''.

KISS.

Keep It Stupid Simple.

Don't be MacDonald, don't try to create a need people don't have.

If you do want something to work on, then I have something for you:
have bison recognize #line _in input_.  Of course by no means shall
you do that on 1.29, but on the trunk.

Some people generate foo.y, with #line in it, from say `foo.z'.  Then
they want bison to output sync lines relative to foo.z, not foo.y.