From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 29 23:22:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA27881 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 23:22:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA27876 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 23:22:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA10046 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 08:22:35 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA15373 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 08:22:34 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id IAA00856 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 08:19:32 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611300719.IAA00856@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Lex/Yacc question To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 08:19:32 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611300244.SAA10231@bubba.whistle.com> from Archie Cobbs at "Nov 29, 96 06:44:54 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Archie Cobbs wrote: > FYI, flex is a superior replacement for lex, while bison is a superior > replacement for yacc (IMCO :-). The Berkeley yacc didn't have mucho things i've been missing lately, but i always found bison's parser description (y.output in yacc, i think bison uses a different name) better readable. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)