Re: RFC: %param

[Akim Demaille]

Le 7 sept. 2009 à 20:26, Joel E. Denny a écrit :

> > - I like to keep related things close to each other.  But sometimes  
> > it can
> > clutter the code.  Here, as often in my grammars, I have put together
> > everything related to %(lex-|parse-)?param management, but it  
> > disrupts the
> > reading of the grammar.  What do people prefer?  Currently, it reads:
>
> I agree that the grammar does tend to become obfuscated when there are
> large passages of other code mixed with it, so maybe the grammar  
> should be
> kept separate.  But I like the way you've kept related blocks of C
> together with their union fields.  Whether those should come before or
> after the grammar is not clear to me.  You could think of them as
> belonging to the tokens, which are traditionally declared before the
> grammar even in language standards documents.  On the other hand, in a
> fully top-down grammar, it seems logical to declare tokens afterward.
> Sorry, I'm not being much help.

I decided to put the definitions before the grammar.  Here are the  
patches as I installed them in master.  I still have to write the  
tests.  I'm sorry to attach the patches here, but since some major  
system upgrade, my tool to send check-in mails is broken.

0001-param.txt
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0003-parse-support-several-arguments.txt
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0004-style-changes.txt
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0006-param-documentation.txt
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