Re: What are the benefits to migrate from Bison++ to Bison

[Akim Demaille]

Le 28 juin 2012 à 17:28, Timothy Madden a écrit :

> First, it looks like you want to migrate from old bison to the newer bison++.

Why do you qualify Bison as old, and Bison++ as newer?  The
latest release of Bison for instance is about one month old.

> If that is so, it means you want to generate a bison C++ parser, instead of a 
> bison C parser. This means your question is about whether or not to migrate 
> from C to C++. It is not necessarily a topic for a bison discussion group, 
> but it might still be considered somewhat related.

Bison does produce C++ parsers.

> Unlike in flex, the bison C++ interface is not marked as experimental, so you 
> should be safe with it, but you should know that GLR parsers currently need 
> the C interface from the old bison.

That is true and false.  First, there is a GLR C++ parser,
that works.  But it does not support the variants, that's
the only issue.