Re: [PATCH] Make test-mhical pass with BSD yacc.

[David Levine]

Eric wrote:

> If we ever find ourselves in need of features present in Bison
> but not in yacc, we should switch in a heartbeat.  But it seems
> silly to require Bison just to ease error message testing.

+1

> If we're going to look at additional requirements imposed on
> developers, I would suggest that imposition would bring far more
> bang for the buck if it were a proper scripting language we can
> write the tests in.

And it could probably handle at least some of what's in the
accessory test programs.  On the other hand, using an LCD of
POSIX has advantages of portability and minimizing dependencies.

David