Re: [help-bison]How to stock information?

[alfonso]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:34:25 +0200, Hans Aberg wrote
> You have to build a grammar. This is difficult at firts. The Bison  
> manual has a calculator example. The book by Aho, Sethi, Ullman,  
> "Compilers" (the "dragon book") has an example of using Lex and 
> Yacc.  Look in grammar-like BNF notation of already existing 
> computer  languages, as that of the C/C++ standards. The newsgroup 
>  comp.compilers has a FAQ, published there monthly, which you can 
> look  into.

This reminds me of a gripe I had when learning to use Bison (not that I'm an
exper or anything, but I know enough to use it) - the calculator example in
the docs is so trivial that it is completely worthless, and the existing
language grammars such as C and C++ (good lord) are way too complex for the
purposes of learning Bison.

I'd really like to see a language with about 10 or 15 keywords written as an
example.  Granted, I know the answer - if I want to see it, I should write it
myself, but who has time for documentation ;)


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