[PATCH] todo: short term

[Akim Demaille]

On master only.

From 5ad90d528dc5feedb0c1d8afe82719440ec17217 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:41:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] todo: short term

        * TODO (syntax_error, variable names): New.
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 -*- outline -*-

 * Short term
+** Use syntax_error from the scanner?
+This would provide a means to raise syntax error from function called
+from the scanner.  Actually, there is no good solution to report a
+lexical error in general.  Usually they are kept at the scanner level
+only, ignoring the guilty token.  But that might not be the best bet,
+since we don't benefit from the syntactic error recovery.
+
+We still have the possibility to return an invalid token number, which
+does the trick.  But then the error message from the parser is poor
+(something like "unexpected $undefined").  Since the scanner probably
+already reported the error, we should directly enter error-recovery,
+without reporting the error message (i.e., YYERROR's semantics).
+
+Back to lalr1.cc (whose name is now quite unfortunate, since it also
+covers lr and ielr), if we support exceptions from yylex, should we
+propose a lexical_error in addition to syntax_error?  Should they have
+a common root, say parse_error?  Should syntax_error be renamed
+syntactic_error for consistency with lexical_error?
+
+** Variable names.
+What should we name `variant' and `lex_symbol'?
+
 ** Use b4_symbol in all the skeleton
 Then remove the older system, including the tables generated by
 output.c
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