Re: [RFA] Java skeleton

[Joel E. Denny]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> > 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.
> :-)

Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you're saying.

> > 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.

But if the Bison user defines his own class to wrap the parser class (like 
the parser driver), he can create whatever interface he likes for the 
parser user.