From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CEDET merge question Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 13:46:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87eiql2w5s.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252259296 12598 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2009 17:48:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 17:48:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 06 19:48:09 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MkLqN-0006H7-Dq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:48:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55680 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MkLqM-0000J3-T2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MkLpZ-0008Mi-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:47:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MkLpV-0008JT-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:47:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34780 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MkLpV-0008JH-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:47:09 -0400 Original-Received: from splat.raeburn.org ([69.25.196.39]:41438 helo=raeburn.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MkLpL-0006Q8-VJ; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:47:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.0.172] (squish.raeburn.org [10.0.0.172]) by raeburn.org (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n86HkwAo004301; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 13:46:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115066 Archived-At: On Sep 6, 2009, at 11:37, Richard Stallman wrote: > I ask because the CEDET merge already involves an uncomfortably > large > amount of code, and it's rather dismaying to see these two big code > trees "embedded" in subdirectories of Semantic. (Wisent, for > instance, > appears to be an entire Elisp reimplementation of Bison...) > > Is it possible to use Bison itself rather than implement the > same functionality differently? Or perhaps add an option > to Bison to output its data in whatever format is convenient? Guile is also using a translation/reimplementation of Bison in Scheme. I haven't looked at the CEDET code, but Guile's version wants the grammar input using Scheme (s-expression) syntax.