Re: Are Google summer of code 2006 ideas still available?

[Hans Aberg]

On 1 Apr 2007, at 06:49, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> > > > I am interested in implementing LR(1) grammar support, which was
> > > > proposed for the 2006 edition of Google Summer of Code. Is it  
> > > > posible
> > > > to request this project for this year?
> > >
> > > I suggest that you do not: Joel is already planning to work on this,
> > > that would be duplicate work.
> >
> > It is only duplicate work, if they implement the same version of LR 
> > (1). What
> > version will he be implementing?
>
> I haven't decided yet.  Moreover, I think it would be better for  
> Bison to
> have one LR(1) implementation and, say, XML output than to have two  
> LR(1)
> implementations.

If there is a choice. And which variation of LR(1) would you prefer,  
if there now is a difference: One that compacts the states and still  
has the same problem as LALR(1) that when an error token comes by,  
some actions can be performed before the error is being reported plus  
it cannot be used in interactive scanners to report possible token  
completions, or one that does not have those flaws, but takes up  
perhaps much more space?

  Hans Aberg