On Jul 22, 2011, at 2:33 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
> On Fri Jul 22 14:32:43 EDT 2011, eeke...@fastmail.fm wrote: >> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:35:24 +0100 >> "Steve Simon" <st...@quintile.net> wrote: >> >>> My understanding is that bison can be convinced to output some static >>> tables which the Go authors munge into some C source (with awk). >> >> I wonder what it would take to add that feature to Plan 9's yacc. I'm not >> normally one to suggest adding features, but if the authors of Go found it >> useful I'm a bit inclined to think about it. > > can you make this argument independent of go? it could > be that go could have done it differently but chose to depend > on a bison feature. Erik has a good point; don't assume too much even if they had a reason
