Re: Parsing nested statements: was Re: gnubol: subsets

[Tim Josling <TIMJOSLING@prodigy.net>]

Is anyone in a position to test this? This is quite an important issue.

The way I hav been building the bison parser, I have no problems if Bob is right,
but if the IBM compilers behave as suggested I have a lot more work to do.

Tim Josling

Michael McKernan wrote:

> Bob> However, a scope terminator will be assumed
>   Bob> just prior to the next phrase of the containing statement.
>
> A nice weasel-worded statement, this.  I think it tells me that Big
> Blue is doing exactly what I have been advocating, as I would have
> expected them to.
>
> It looks to me like they're saying "you're not allowed to write a
> conditional statement within another statement, but if you do, we're
> going to assume that it's been terminated."
>




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