Re: Bison: Grammar for function definitions...

[Hans Aberg]

On 17 May 2008, at 17:08, Geten wrote:

> I am little more than a beginner in writing bison specifications  
> and now I
> have stumbled on some problems. What I want to do is to write  
> grammar to
> recognize a function definition
...
> A code example:
>
> function helloWorld(int p1, int p2) : bool
>
> int a = p1;
> int b = p2;
...
> What would a grammar that handled that look like?

It seems you want to settle for a C/C++ like grammar, so you might  
look into the standards of these. There is a Yaccable (so it is  
Bisonable) one for C++ here:
  http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/compiler- 
dependencies.html#faq-38.11

Also, you might try the Usenet newsgroup comp.compilers.

  Hans Aberg