Re: [Nmh-workers] mhfixmsg on a pathological mail

[Ken Hornstein]

>> Some people have been recoiling in horror at my attempts to write an
>> RFC-822 address parser in Yacc/Bison.
>
>+1

Are you recoiling in horror, or think it's a good idea?  I can't tell :-)

>Deciding on a common denominator for yacc/bison, and also lex/flex, could
>be a challenge.  I'd be OK with just supporting flex and bison.

I think Automake mostly solves this problem; by default the generated
C source code is shipped in the distribution; only people who build
the distribution and work on git trees need those tools.  I'm fine
with a flex/bison requirement.

--Ken