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| author | Joel E. Denny <jdenny@ces.clemson.edu> | 2008-12-11 15:37:24 -0500 |
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| committer | Joel E. Denny <jdenny@ces.clemson.edu> | 2008-12-11 15:37:24 -0500 |
| commit | d07932ef3d14aae86149b8ff65258f520ffa3998 (patch) | |
| tree | ecd891785542282bead5678d8aad547daa996029 | |
| parent | 0364b3344f9d69fa90a3001b8b9d05f4bec1ce75 (diff) | |
| download | bison-d07932ef3d14aae86149b8ff65258f520ffa3998.tar.gz | |
Semicolon feature removal is not about future language support.
* NEWS: The semicolon feature is no longer active for newer languages,
so don't claim that it causes trouble for them.
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 13 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ 2008-12-11 Joel E. Denny <jdenny@ces.clemson.edu> + Semicolon feature removal is not about future language support. + * NEWS: The semicolon feature is no longer active for newer languages, + so don't claim that it causes trouble for them. + +2008-12-11 Joel E. Denny <jdenny@ces.clemson.edu> + * gnulib: Update submodule to HEAD. 2008-12-09 Akim Demaille <demaille@gostai.com> @@ -17,13 +17,12 @@ Bison News exp: exp "+" exp { $$ = $1 + $3; }; - This prevents the future support for languages that do not use `;' - as C/C++/Java do. Yet some grammars still depend on this `feature'. - Bison 2.4.1 restores the previous behavior in the case of C output - (specifically, when neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent - command-line options are used) to leave more time for grammars - depending on the old behavior to be adjusted. Future releases of - Bison will disable this feature. + Some grammars still depend on this `feature'. Bison 2.4.1 restores + the previous behavior in the case of C output (specifically, when + neither %language or %skeleton or equivalent command-line options + are used) to leave more time for grammars depending on the old + behavior to be adjusted. Future releases of Bison will disable this + feature. ** A few minor improvements to the Bison manual. |