Re: Changes/enhancements to non-kernel apps

[Dave Cuthbert <dacut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Hmm.  The issue with yacc is that you wouldn't really be able to 
>     base any projects on the modified behavior and still have them be
>     portable to other platforms.  It's such an old program, the behavior
>     is pretty well set in stone from the point of view of 99.99% of the
>     programmers who use it.

Heh... yacc?  portable? :-)

I just see so much hackery with sed/awk applied to yacc, requiring 
special versions of yacc or bison (because the sed script expects the 
output to look like such-and-such), etc., that we might as well attack 
the root cause of most of these problems:  yacc keeps a lot of state in 
global variables.

The same argument could've been made for a number of features that are 
commonplace today (ANSI C prototypes come to mind).

Dave