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Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number.


From: Alex Rozenman
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number.
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:13:10 +0200

Hi,

I didn't managed to find the corresponding discussion in the mailing list,
but as far I remember, it is impossible to obtain an unambiguous grammar
with syntax extensions like id '[' c_id ']' without involving the ';'
requirement. It is also not desirable to change the type of the grammar or
to maintain two separate grammars.

I totally agree with the general statement, but just not seeing
any reasonable solution. Please suggest one.

Alex


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 01/15/11 22:28, Alex Rozenman wrote:
> > Currently I am very busy with other tasks. Please allow me couple of days
> to review it.
>
> One other thought, while we're on the subject.  Currently we are handling
> bracketed constructs, such a [x], [y], and [z] in this rule:
>
>  foo[x]: foo[y] '+' foo[z];
>
> in a combination of C and lex.  That is, the "[x]" is a single token
> in the grammar for Bison grammars, and there's a long bit of C+lex code to
> allow things like "[x /*hello*/]" while disallowing things like "[x
> /*hello*/y]".
> This is not good.  We have a nice compiler-compiler, and we're not using
> it,
> but instead we have a sortof-parser in C and lex.
>
> We should parse these bracketed constructs with a Bison grammar, so that
> "[", "x", and "]" are all single tokens, and so that the grammar tells us
> which things are allowed in brackets.
>
> I suspect that the reason it's done the way it is, is because of the old
> backward-compatibility concern with rules that do not end in ';'.  But
> there's no reason to cater to these backward-compatibility concerns with
> this new construct.  No grammars should use this new construct, without
> also putting ';' at the end of every rule.
>



-- 
Best regards,
Alex Rozenman (address@hidden).


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