From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za (Lucio De Re) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:48:08 +0200 Subject: [9fans] all you yacc experts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 401c37aa-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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