Re: inserting into tab.h, after %union

[Hans Aberg]

On 4 Dec 2006, at 22:56, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> > The problem is that different languages use different paradigms,  
> > and it m,ay
> > not be possible to do this stuff in that context then.
>
> Until we know what those languages are, I'm not sure how to handle  
> them.

So then you cannot produce a unified commend set.

> > It might work for
> > parser specific features, but not language specific feature.  In  
> > particular,
> > for C++, there is no language requirement of a header-source setup  
> > - only a
> > tradition inherited from C.
>
> If you don't use header files, you can ignore %provides.  I see no  
> problem
> with that.

The point is that a name like %provides sounds as thouh it has  
something to do with the sematics to do, when in reality, it is a  
language specific file setup.

> > Another language, like Java
>
> In the case of Java, Paolo Bonzini (the author of the Java  
> skeleton) and I
> have already come to an agreement on how these directives will make  
> sense.

But the point is that you say it has a structure unified with C++.

  Hans Aberg