Re: %prefix with C++ namespaces

[Sebastian Pipping]

Joel E. Denny wrote:
> Well, if we document how the splitting is done, then I figure they can't 
> complain too much.  I certainly don't want to see Bison parse complex C++ 
> constructs.  Let the C++ compiler catch those errors.

Wouldn't it be both easy and powerful to solve that namespace thing
using "%define"s?


What I have in mind is one %define each for begin and end of the
namespace, something like this:

  %define "namespace_intro" "namespace Gnu { namespace Bison {"
  %define "namespace_outro" "} }"

The default would be set to

  %define "namespace_intro" "namespace <prefix> {"
  %define "namespace_outro" "}"

If that's possible that would
* take namespace parsing off Bison's shoulders and
* be flexible at the same time.


What do you think?




Sebastian