This might be because the rules I have in place are not complete (I'm not implementing a complete D expression parser), but I have my doubts on this, and currently leaning on a possible problem in the documentation.

I've built up rules in yacc based on what's documented here: http://dlang.org/expression.html

However I seem to be getting shift/reduce conflicts around:

AndAndExpression:
        OrExpression
|       AndAndExpression && OrExpression
        CmpExpression
|       AndAndExpression && CmpExpression
;

OrExpression:
        XorExpression
|       OrExpression | XorExpression
;

XorExpression:
        AndExpression
|       XorExpression ^ AndExpression
;

AndExpression:
        ShiftExpression
|       AndExpression & ShiftExpression
;

CmpExpression:
        ShiftExpression
|       EqualExpression
|       IdentityExpression
|       RelExpression
;

CmpExpression:
        ShiftExpression
|       EqualExpression
|       IdentityExpression
|       RelExpression
;


---
Conflict between 'XorExpression: XorExpression '^' AndExpression' and token '&' Conflict between 'ShiftExpression: ShiftExpression RSH AddExpression' and token '+' Conflict between 'ShiftExpression: ShiftExpression RSH AddExpression' and token '-' Conflict between 'ShiftExpression: ShiftExpression LSH AddExpression' and token '+' Conflict between 'ShiftExpression: ShiftExpression LSH AddExpression' and token '-' Conflict between 'AddExpression: AddExpression '+' MulExpression' and token '*' Conflict between 'AddExpression: AddExpression '-' MulExpression' and token '*'
---


It's not too much of a problem, I can tweak it (so it follows same-ish rules as Java) and it will pass just fine:

AndAndExpression:
        OrExpression
|       AndAndExpression && OrExpression
;

OrExpression:
        XorExpression
|       OrExpression | XorExpression
;

XorExpression:
        AndExpression
|       XorExpression ^ AndExpression
;

AndExpression:
        CmpExpression
|       AndExpression & CmpExpression
;

CmpExpression:
        ShiftExpression
|       EqualExpression
|       IdentityExpression
|       RelExpression
;


I'm just curious if anyone else has stumbled onto this, and whether or not it's just human error on my part. :o)

Regards
Iain.

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