Re: Why Bison prefer reduce to shift in dangling else?

[Akim Demaille]

 Hans> At 19:19 +0100 2003/02/25, Akim Demaille wrote:
 >>> I am swamped by the following dangling else problem. Bison prefers reduce 
 >>> to
 >>> shift for the following gramma. Any suggestions to resolve this problem 
 >>> will
 >>> be appreciated.
 >> 
 >> If it does, that's a serious bug.  I very much doubt it reduces here,
 >> check your files again, it certainly shifts.

 Hans> Bison prefers shift over reduce (as in the Bison manual
 Hans> sec. 5.2). So this is probably a misunderstanding: So just
 Hans> forgetting about it will give the right parsing.

 Hans> But it is better to use %nonassoc, as the grammr then becomes
 Hans> fully specified.

I think neither is right, one just want %prec, something that would
leave a conflict if associativity information appears to be needed at
bison time, vs. %nonassoc which is run time only.