Re: switch from byacc to bison

[email protected] (Nicholas Clark) Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:22:46 +0000
Newsgroups perl.perl5.build
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 01:46:06PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote:

> Anyway, I was envisaging that the patch might go into 5.8.x, but it's
> definitely too scary for anything earlier. All the old byacc parser

Depends how scarey it looks. How close is its output to the current *.c files,
given the same input?

> Dave.
> 
> -- 
> Nothing ventured, nothing lost.

Oooh. A mission statement for maint. :-)

Nicholas Clark