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Re: append-semicolon-to-action backward compatibility patch


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: append-semicolon-to-action backward compatibility patch
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:19:40 +0100
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 Paul> I installed this backward-compatibility patch.  This fixes the last
 Paul> remaining compatibility issue that I know of, for CVS Bison compared
 Paul> to Bison 1.35.

I think this is not a good idea.  Bison should never have accepted
such inputs, and some people have had problems because it did.  This
change is very much C oriented, and might make things more complex
than they need to be in the future.  Having people fix their grammars
is saner, imho.




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