Re: experimental features in Bison 2.3a+

[Hans Aberg]

On 5 Dec 2006, at 23:28, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> > , there might be
> > problems in the future, if the code part should be parsed  
> > according to
> > language. Then %define is better reserved for verbatim macros, and  
> > %code for
> > code placement.
>
> For verbatim strings:
>
>   %define "NAME" "STRING"

No, just one line. This why <code> had to be added.

> For code that needs to be parsed:
>
>   %define "NAME" { CODE }
>
> How does calling it %code in the second case solve the problem of  
> multiple
> languages?

Because parsing of the code part needs to be changed according to  
language. For a macro define, that seems to be a poor practice.

  Hans Aberg