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[PATCH] Semicolon feature removal is not about future language support.


From: Joel E. Denny
Subject: [PATCH] Semicolon feature removal is not about future language support.
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:41:13 -0500 (EST)

I pushed this to branch-2.4.1.

>From d07932ef3d14aae86149b8ff65258f520ffa3998 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel E. Denny <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:37:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Semicolon feature removal is not about future language support.

* NEWS: The semicolon feature is no longer active for newer languages,
so don't claim that it causes trouble for them.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 72d73e1..d67e3f0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -17,13 +17,12 @@ Bison News
 
     exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; };
 
-  This prevents the future support for languages that do not use `;'
-  as C/C++/Java do.  Yet some grammars still depend on this `feature'.
-  Bison 2.4.1 restores the previous behavior in the case of C output
-  (specifically, when neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent
-  command-line options are used) to leave more time for grammars
-  depending on the old behavior to be adjusted.  Future releases of
-  Bison will disable this feature.
+  Some grammars still depend on this `feature'.  Bison 2.4.1 restores
+  the previous behavior in the case of C output (specifically, when
+  neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent command-line options
+  are used) to leave more time for grammars depending on the old
+  behavior to be adjusted.  Future releases of Bison will disable this
+  feature.
 
 ** A few minor improvements to the Bison manual.
 
-- 
1.5.4.3





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