On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 05:36:42AM +0000, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > > Does Go use things that are bison-specific? If not, maybe Berkeley Yacc > (there are various versions around) would be easier to port. > That's why I ask about Bison experts, it's hard to tell how deep the usage of bison-specific features goes without some familiarity. I do suspect that there is a whole generation of programmers out there that only knows the GNU dialects and I'm not a member of that club.
I am only slightly curious about BSD Yacc (is that what NetBSD uses, I wonder?) as my education stopped short of compiler construction principles. Back then compiler generators were still a novelty. ++L
