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Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
From: "ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com" <comeauat9fans@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:48:44 -0400
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Go (Was: GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto)
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On Jul 22, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:53:41 EDT erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>=
  wrote:
>> can you give am example where // comments with ' cause
>> trouble.  i can't replicate.
>>=20
>> - erik
>=20
> In 9vx:
>=20
> term% yacc go/src/cmd/gc/go.y
>=20
> fatal error:newline in string or char. const., /go/src/cmd/gc/go.y:528
>=20
>=20
>        // If the last token read by the lexer was consumed
>        // as part of the case, clear it (parser has cleared yychar).
>        // If the last token read by the lexer was the lookahead
>        // leave it alone (parser has it cached in yychar).
> =3D=3D=3D=3D>        // This is so that the stmt_list action doesn't look a=
t
>        // the case tokens if the stmt_list is empty.
>        yylast =3D yychar;

pcc accepts -+ as well as cpp, perhaps a way to pass it as an environment an=
d/or make variable?=