Re: Are compiler developers light-years ahead of other software development?

From	Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Are compiler developers light-years ahead of other software development?
Date	2022-01-23 06:17 +0000
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On 2022-01-22, Ian Lance Taylor <ianlancetaylor@gmail.com> wrote:
> In my experience bison/yacc parsers are really good for knowing the exact
> language that you are parsing.

In my experience, you can easily know what language you're processing
with Yacc is if you avoid its /ad hoc/ features for suppressing conflict
messages. Namely:

- %left, %right and %nonassoc declarations for tokens.

- %prec in rules.

Otherwise, you're likely going to be relying on your regression test
cases to inform you what language you're parsing.

The exception is that %left, %right are readily understood if they are
only used for the operator tokens in the productions for a binary
operator expression grammar (that likely being their motivating use case).

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