From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Marc Espie Cc: jpr@jpr.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: bison Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 02:52:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <200007292256.AAA30682@quatramaran.ens.fr> X-SW-Source: 2000-07/msg00987.html On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Marc Espie wrote: > Actually, the only language that requires bison is java (pure parser). > > C, C++ and objective C are usually happy with byacc [...] Isn't that a bug in the Java frontend then (that should be fixed)? Someone I highly respect when it comes to portability recently wrote | But for robustness, as soon as you get trapped into having one single | reference implementation, and dismiss everything else [...], then | you're in trouble... and I couldn't agree more when it comes to tools like yacc/bison. Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/