> On Nov 12, 2023, at 18:18, James K. Lowden <jklow...@schemamania.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:52:02 +0100 > Hans Åberg <haber...@telia.com> wrote: > >>> Let's start, shall we, with "is it a bug"? >> >> The parser knows how to translate token numbers into names for error >> messages, but there is no API for that as far as I know. > > I disagree. Bison might know how to do that, but "the parser" does > not.
Read the generated parser code: Error message strings are generated by translating token numbers into symbol names, first into the symbol-number mentioned. > Bison is a parser-generator. I'm writing "the parser" using > Bison. I implemented yyerror(). I'm producing the error message using > the only vehicle I've found, yytname. It's insufficient to the > purpose. It generates an error message string, which one is expected to use. Not the internal tables directly.
