Re: Token value in custom error reporting

Akim Demaille <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.parsers.bison.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> Le 18 juin 2020 à 20:46, Hans Åberg <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> Otherwise, in your link above you suggest not using the semantic value in error messages, but when using locations, it contains the token delimitations. So there seems to be no advantage letting the lexer generating the error.

It is still useful for the scanner to emit the error message, because the parser has no idea what is wrong.  Granted, it knows _where_ it's wrong, but not _why_:
- invalid character?
- not-closed string?
- invalid escape sequence?
- out-of-range literal number?
- etc.

The scanner faces the error, *it* should say what's wrong.
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