From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bruce.ellis@gmail.com (Bruce Ellis) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:55:29 +1100 Subject: [9fans] all you yacc experts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 40233b04-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 my motivation is that the limbo version of yacc is out of date severely (doesn't cope with cc.y) and it seems like a good time to have a 5c in limbo that copes with all and sundry arm variants - two more were released this week - with loadable arch modules. and to write shorter sentences. brucee On 13 November 2011 15:48, Lucio De Re wrote: >> If all the information is available in y.output then surely modifying >> yacc will cut out the middle man. >> > That's not quite how I remember it, I'm sure that there was no trivial > way to alter the output from yacc to conform to the needs of Russ' > error messages. ?That said, even if y.output does include the > essentials, it would have been extremly insightful of Russ to design a > message format that would be worth including in yacc itself. ?It > certainly isn't the impression I got from looking at the available > documentation and sources, > > I don't want to rain on anybody's parade, but I think a middle man > provides more flexibility and allows the developers on the yacc side > to focus on generating the type of output that makes the most sense, > rather than what the Go toolchain requires. > >> On my list. > > Ron isn't the only developer that will benefit from your efforts, I'd > like to show my appreciation as well. > > ++L > > > -- Don't meddle in the mouth -- MVS (0416935147, +1-513-3BRUCEE)