From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:33:56 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <21a2bc226f7eac7896ea79da600f3d1e@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: <20110722193047.45addae9@kolari.ethans.dre.am> References: <2fb2c31fa3cb67d0f3fe70f628f24bf6@ladd.quanstro.net> <8e8648e7029cff027f2fbfc4920762ae@quintile.net> <20110722193047.45addae9@kolari.ethans.dre.am> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Go (Was: GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 051e0e08-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri Jul 22 14:32:43 EDT 2011, eekee57@fastmail.fm wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:35:24 +0100 > "Steve Simon" wrote: > > > My understanding is that bison can be convinced to output some static > > tables which the Go authors munge into some C source (with awk). > > I wonder what it would take to add that feature to Plan 9's yacc. I'm not normally one to suggest adding features, but if the authors of Go found it useful I'm a bit inclined to think about it. can you make this argument independent of go? it could be that go could have done it differently but chose to depend on a bison feature. - erik