[prog] Yacc - double errors (EOF detection)

[Jimen Ching]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Sue Stones wrote:
>I still feel no wiser about why I would want to use yacc though, so I may
>not do any more after this is done.

Yacc is convenient if your grammar can be easily described with BNF
(Baukus Nau Format(sp?)).  But if your grammar is complex, like C++, then
yacc simply can't handle it.  This is why the GCC developers re-wrote the
C++ parser from scratch without yacc.  For simple things, though, it beats
writing the entire parser by hand.

--jc
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