Re: [RFA] Java skeleton

[Paolo Bonzini]

> > Not in the C++ skeleton, which I based the Java naming convention on.
>
> As far as I understand the C++ skeletons, the user cannot add new members 
> to the parser class.  I'm not sure why the "yy" prefix is ever used 
> internally at all.

Thanks for the clarification.

> Your Java skeletons do allow users to add members to the parser and lexer 
> classes, so it seems to me that you have much more to worry about.  I find 
> it hard to believe that you will never decide to add some new really 
> useful public method.

I find it hard that this wouldn't have been added already in the C 
skeleton.  :-)

> Still, from the point of view of the parser's end user (who may not even 
> know what Bison is), it seems ugly to have a public interface where some 
> large arbitrary portion of the methods have names prefixed by yy.

Yes, that's the reason why I think parse() should remain unprefixed, for 
example.

Paolo