Re: Interactive continuation prompting

[Christian Schoenebeck]

On Friday 27 June 2014 18:12:34 Hans Aberg wrote:
> On 27 Jun 2014, at 14:40, Christian Schoenebeck <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> >     1. Strong separation between "lexer" and "parser" has its historical
> >     
> >        reasons, but it makes things often quite problematic.
> 
> Bison is synced in the first hand with Flex, but the latter does not
> currently belong to the GNU project, and has a different license, BSD. But
> if that changes, a more radical integration might be possible.

Flex is released under the 2-clause BSD license, which is compatible with the 
GPL. So that is not the problem. And whether it is part of the GNU project or 
not is not relevant.

There rather seems to be no interest on GNU side to design a modern parser 
generator.

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck