Re: bison for nlp

[Hans Åberg]

> On 7 Nov 2018, at 10:09, r0ller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Numbering tokens was introduced in the very beginning and has been questioned 
> by myself quite a many times if it's still needed. I didn't give a hard try 
> to get rid of it mainly due to one reason: I want to have an error handling 
> that tells in case of an error which symbols could be accepted instead of the 
> erroneous one just as bison itself does it but in a structured way (as bison 
> returns that info in an error message string). Though, I could not come up 
> with any better idea when it comes to remapping a token to a symbol.

If the token numbers are replaced by strings "…", the Bison parser will print 
those, and they can also be used in the grammar. Would that suffice?