Re: bison manual

[Hans Aberg]

At 13:34 -0500 2003/11/17, Urdaneta, Alfonso E (N-Summitt Technologies) wrote:
>> But the Bison manual has grammar examples.
>
>Respectually, I disagree.  A "calculator" hardly qualifies as an
>example, and additionally I believe that the manual would be easier to
>read if that entire calculator section were ripped out.   Better no
>example than a worthless one.

I once found it useful. I also used the example in the Aho et al "Dragon"
book, which includes a Lex (Flex) scanner.

>But then again, I really have no right to complain, as nothing prevents
>me from writing a better example and sending it in, but yet I don't.

Right. Akim Demaille wrote something more ambitions though, called
"Programming with GNU Software: Bison", which was posted in Help-Bison
2002/01/10 as an attachment "bi.pdf".

  Hans Aberg