Re: Token value in custom error reporting

Adrian Vogelsgesang <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.parsers.bison.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Akim,
    
    > That being said, this is clearly a nice-to-have and by no means necessary.
    > Also, I guess I would run into different issues, first (e.g., when encountering an error I would like to check "given the current state, would an identifier be valid". I don't think bison currently offers the API to do so) 
    Well, in a way it does: check if it's in the expected tokens.  Agreed,
    it's more costly than it could be, but it's available.

You are right. Bison already supports getting the expected tokens. It seems, I completely spaced out while typing the original message.

    I'm not opposed to extending the API, but it does frighten me:
    API are really binding us, and make evolutions much more difficult.

I completely agree, and I am not convinced myself that there are enough compelling use cases to add this new functionality to the API.
I just wanted to share my personal use case. Maybe others have additional use cases - if not, I guess I my use case alone isn't worth it. It's a nice-to-have anyway...

Cheers,
Adrian
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