Re: [SPAM] Re: proposal: simplify prologue alternatives into %code

[Joel E. Denny]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
> > "Joel E. Denny" <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > I think we shouldn't use STRING for those names in parse-gram.y.  
> > > Instead, we should define a limited regular expression that plays nicely 
> > > with M4.
> > 
> > Sure.  How about using the Bison rule for identifiers?
> 
> I believe that has the same lexical structure as M4 names except that it 
> also allows `.', which shouldn't hurt anything.  Thanks.

I believe %define "NAME" "VALUE" is currently only used for the C++ 
skeletons.  Should we continue to support it for backward compatibility 
but deprecate it in favor of the unquoted NAME form?  Or can we just get 
rid of it?