On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:04:14AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >If you don't like relying on file order to resolve this, appropriate
> >use of %prec would have the same effect (just like for operator
> >precedence). The output file tell you which way bison went.
> If we allow shift/reduce or reduce/reduce conflicts, debugging future
> development becomes more difficult. Right now we have the nice property
> that if you see one of those you know you've done something wrong (and
> using the expect directive isn't really a good answer, and only applies
> to shift/reduce conflicts anyway).
But that's the point of the %prec directive. To force bison to choose
one or the other, thus removing the warning... For an ambiguity that
only appears in one statement, it seems a better solution than upgrade
SET to a new class of identifier.
Have a nice day,
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