Re: i18n for yacc backend messages

[Hans Aberg]

At 13:56 +0200 2005/04/14, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Paul Eggert writes:
>
> >  OK, but why can't you use the token name '\drums' instead of 'DRUMS'?  E.g.,
> >  something like this:
>  > %token DRUMS "\\drums"
>
> I'll look into this.  Still, we have tokens like 'new_lyrics',
> 'directionless_char', and sequences like STRING, string,
> simple_string.


> ... it's only for error reporting, as far as my wishes go.

If one writes as Paul suggested, two things happens: "\\drums" will 
be used in error messages. And further, "\\drums" can be used in the 
grammar. I think there is a suggestion to improve error messages 
output even further, not having this coupling of the two uses.
--
  Hans Aberg