Re: [RFC] %language declaration

[Paolo Bonzini]

Akim Demaille wrote:
> > > > "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
> > > >         
>
>  > Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:
>  >>> Would something similar, of course with documentation and against
>  >>> mainline rather than 2.0, be ok to apply?  The copyright process is
>  >>> in the works.
>
>  > I like the idea, and thanks.
>
>  > Akim, what do you think?  I vaguely recall you wanted something like
>  > this but don't recall the details.
>
> Actually it is the converse: I meant to avoid as much as possible any
> reference to the output language in the input, because I have yet to
> see where it can be useful.
I agree with Tim.  Bison should avoid as much as possible any 
*dependence* on the output language in the input (e.g. it would be crazy 
to change the definition of identifiers, or expecting [] instead of {} 
in a hypotetical Smalltalk parser), but this is just syntactic sugar for 
choosing a skeleton.

Paolo