Re: Interactive continuation prompting

[Hans Aberg]

On 28 Jun 2014, at 12:33, Christian Schoenebeck <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

It is the other way around: Flex isn’t developed currently, and not able to 
develop it under the BSD licence.