Re: help please?

Kenny MacDermid wrote:

> I really have no idea right at the moment. Bison is suppose to
> choose to shift the '(' instead of reduce in the event of a
> conflict, but doesn't seem to be doing that. Also looking at
> the state machine you can see it reduce, and completely ignore
> the '(':
>
> -----
> state 296
>
>   172 obj: obj '$' LABEL . '(' function_params ')'
>   173    | obj '$' LABEL .  ['(', <others removed>]
>
>     $default  reduce using rule 173 (obj)

That's a shock.  I was expecting you to say "you moron, you have to blah
blah blah".  I didn't expect you to actually have to do any work.

> The only other thing I can think of is that the conflicts are
> throwing it for a loop. Obj has a lot of repeated matches like:
>
> obj -> target_param -> attr_ref -> obj '.' LABEL
> obj -> obj '.' LABEL

Then let's clean things up before we worry about adding the obj$label
syntax.  I wonder if there is some way to leverage you so that I can learn
from you and do the grunt work.  I guess in any case you'll need to get a
build of Prothon going.  [email protected] is our unix expert.  Feel free to
get help from him.