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Re: Unsatisfied %expectations
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: Unsatisfied %expectations |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:24:16 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
>>> "Joel" == Joel E Denny <address@hidden> writes:
> However, consider how this will impact the development of new,
> experimental grammars. Every time the grammar is tweaked, the
> number of conflicts may change slightly. The developer must then
> run bison, observe the number of conflicts reported in the error,
> update the bison spec with that number, and then try to compile
> again. This could really slow down development especially when
> hacking a grammar for the sake of debugging. I can imagine this
> being incredibly frustrating for students (or anyone) learning
> bison for the first time.
Sure! But then just comment you %expects until it's stable! I'm not
proposing to change the default behavior: conflicts are warnings
(unless their number is spelled out).