Re: bison-2.5 released [stable]

[Hans Aberg]

On 30 May 2011, at 04:39, Joel E. Denny wrote:

>> It compiles on Mac OS X 10.6.7, Xcode Version 3.2.6 64-bit, 
>> i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 which is a GCC derived 
>> compiler. (On this platform, there is a later clang/llvm based compiler, 
>> too, that comes with Xcode 4.)
> 
> Good to hear.

I think it was Guile that compiled with the clang/llvm based compiler, so it 
might work for Bison, too; something to keep in mind if there is a bug report 
here.

>> The first line of this section might say that named references may be 
>> more convenient, as they are more descriptive and avoid the renumbering 
>> problem.
> 
> You're probably right.  It might not be obvious to everyone why numbers 
> are bad.

Some example when changing the grammar might be instructive.

> Thanks for the feedback.

You are welcome.

Hans