Re: YY_PERSER_SKELETON.syntax_error

Eric Bezault wrote:
> Thomas Beale wrote:
>> I agree, if we believe the comment in the strictest possible way, but 
>> think of it in formal terms: if I call this routine before having done a 
>> parse (as is could be done in a generic parser handler routine), it 
>> returns True, meaning "syntax error occurred" even though this clearly 
>> is not the case. 
> 
> Well, this error could be that no input has been provided yet ;-)
> 
> I'd be tempted to write:
> 
> 	syntax_error: BOOLEAN is
> 			-- Has last parsing been unsuccesful?
> 		do
> 			Result := yy_parsing_status = yyAborted
> 		end
> 
> but I'm not sure what the consequences are. I don't want
> to break anything because of this modification.

The code above is now in CVS and will be part of the
forthcoming release.

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