Re: Public / protected access to parser's symbol_name() in C++

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Martin,

> Le 9 mai 2020 à 17:00, Martin Blais <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Hi,
> I'm writing some unit tests for a scanner which I want to assert tokens by
> name for, for a C++ bison parser.
> I just saw (timely!) that 3.6 always produces a symbol_name(), but
> unfortunately it's private...
> 
> I need (public) access to yytname or symbol_name().
> Protected access would be fine too (I could probably inherit and expose it).
> Is there any reason it's private?
> 
> In trying to kludge my way out of this, I also couldn't find a way to
> insert code inside the C++ parser.

I'll soon release a version where this is public.  It should have been public.

Cheers!