Re: [help-bison]How to stock information?

[Hans Aberg]

On 20 Jul 2005, at 23:06, alfonso wrote:

> This reminds me of a gripe I had when learning to use Bison (not  
> that I'm an
> exper or anything, but I know enough to use it) - the calculator  
> example in
> the docs is so trivial that it is completely worthless, and the  
> existing
> language grammars such as C and C++ (good lord) are way too complex  
> for the
> purposes of learning Bison.
>
> I'd really like to see a language with about 10 or 15 keywords  
> written as an
> example.  Granted, I know the answer - if I want to see it, I  
> should write it
> myself, but who has time for documentation ;)

You don't use the whole grammars of say C++, but only selected  
subparts, say for the type of expressions that you want. Don't try to  
copy the C++ informal grammar-like stuff, because you will get into  
trouble; just use it as an inspiration.

  Hans Aberg