Re: bison for nlp

[Hans Åberg]

> On 8 Nov 2018, at 20:48, r0ller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I don't really get it:( What do you mean by replacing tokens by 
> strings? How can that be done?

Write
  %token t_ENG_Adv "English adverb"

Then, in error message, the Bison parser will write "English adverb", and you 
can also use it in the grammar instead of t_ENG_Adv.

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> Feladó: Hans Åberg < address@hidden (Link -> mailto:address@hidden) >
> Dátum: 2018 november 8 14:28:03
> Tárgy: Re: bison for nlp
> Címzett: r0ller < address@hidden (Link -> mailto:address@hidden) >
>  
> > 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?
>