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Re: FYI: default %destructor/%printer for error, $undefined, $accept
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: FYI: default %destructor/%printer for error, $undefined, $accept |
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Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:05:57 +0200 |
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>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>> Can you give me an example of how error token values would be useful?
> Well, I dunno. Suppose you're parsing HTML and have as a semantic
> value a list of all the href= values in that subtree. And when you
> parse a busted subtree you still want its href= values.
> Again, just thinking out loud.
I'm afraid that making "error" more powerful will also make its use
more complex. More declarative approaches, like Burke-Fisher [1],
seem more tractable for the user.
[1]
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=806981&dl=acm&coll=&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
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