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From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:30:58 -0800
Subject: [9fans] all you yacc experts
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On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:58:30 PST ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>  wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
> 
> > Might it be worth looking Merr or iyacc? Porting bison to
> > plan9 seems like a hugh punishment for a quick hack:-)
> > Implementing Jeffery's directly in yacc might benefit other
> > parsers as well.
>
> If it's worth a look then I hope someone looks. I'm more trying to push that
> than having this discussion :-)

I will take a look but don't hold your breath; my plate is
already full.

One further issue is whether go has any other bison
dependencies.

> I think porting bison is the wrong way to go, personally.

They lost me at configure.  Why should a parser generator need
on anything more than string.h, stdio,h and may be stdlib.h is
beyond me.  All it does is manipulate lists, sets and vectors!