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authorAkim Demaille <akim.demaille@gmail.com>2022-09-10 14:48:24 +0200
committerAkim Demaille <akim.demaille@gmail.com>2022-09-10 14:48:24 +0200
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downloadbison-374cf8bbafea10914b15df8110fb527383095d2f.tar.gz
doc: fix the description of the syntax of %token and %left
Reported by Frank Heckenbach. https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-bison/2022-07/msg00007.html * doc/bison.texi (Symbol Decls): here.
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diff --git a/doc/bison.texi b/doc/bison.texi
index f4ee13e1..a4bc037e 100644
--- a/doc/bison.texi
+++ b/doc/bison.texi
@@ -5318,15 +5318,27 @@ exclusively nonterminal symbols, use the safer @code{%nterm}:
The syntax of the various directives to declare symbols is as follows.
@example
-%token @var{tag}? ( @var{id} @var{number}? @var{string}? )+ ( @var{tag} ( @var{id} @var{number}? @var{string}? )+ )*
-%left @var{tag}? ( @var{id} @var{number}?)+ ( @var{tag} ( @var{id} @var{number}? )+ )*
-%type @var{tag}? ( @var{id} | @var{char} | @var{string} )+ ( @var{tag} ( @var{id} | @var{char} | @var{string} )+ )*
-%nterm @var{tag}? @var{id}+ ( @var{tag} @var{id}+ )*
+@group
+%token @var{tag}? ( (@var{id}|@var{char}) @var{number}? @var{string}? )+ \
+ ( @var{tag} ( (@var{id}|@var{char}) @var{number}? @var{string}? )+ )*
+@end group
+@group
+%left @var{tag}? ( (@var{id}|@var{char}|@var{string}) @var{number}? )+ \
+ ( @var{tag} ( (@var{id}|@var{char}|@var{string}) @var{number}? )+ )*
+@end group
+@group
+%type @var{tag}? (@var{id}|@var{char}|@var{string})+ \
+ ( @var{tag} (@var{id}|@var{char}|@var{string})+ )*
+@end group
+@group
+%nterm @var{tag}? @var{id}+ \
+ ( @var{tag} @var{id}+ )*
+@end group
@end example
@noindent
where @var{tag} denotes a type tag such as @samp{<ival>}, @var{id} denotes
-an identifier such as @samp{NUM}, @var{number} a decimal or hexadecimal
+an identifier such as @samp{NUM} or @samp{exp}, @var{number} a decimal or hexadecimal
integer such as @samp{300} or @samp{0x12d}, @var{char} a character literal
such as @samp{'+'}, and @var{string} a string literal such as
@samp{"number"}. The postfix quantifiers are @samp{?} (zero or one),