Hello Akim,
I have a project where I am evaluating moving a parser from C++ to PHP.
Wow. I'm curious: what's the goal?
It is for a parser for a play be email game.
$$$ -> $
$$$$ -> $$
@@@ -> @
Why not. I have no strong opinion. Yet \$ would have seemed more natural
to me. \$1, \$\$, \@\$. What do you think?
I wondered the same thing, I don't have a strong opinion either.
I only picked $$$ because it is slightly easier to type than \$ IMO (on a UK
keyboard).
One problem with \ is that then we need a means to escape it itself,
such as \\.
I don't think so, you only need to (greedy) match digraphs "\$" & "\@" and
handle "\" as now.
e.g. flex rules
"\\$" obstack_sgrow (&obstack_for_string, "$][");
"\\@" obstack_sgrow (&obstack_for_string, "@@");
Single \ is used in C & PHP (e.g. namespaces) - requiring \\ to escape \
could break existing C macros.
This seems tidier to me than the PHP specific ifs in the scfc/bison_php
code.
It might be helpful to add this to the release with a argument to enable
it.
I'm not sure the argument to enable is needed.
Sure, as I don't think it can break existing C/C++ grammar file actions.
Chris
