amb@apple.com (A. Michael Burbidge) (10/08/90)
Does anyone know how optional semi-colons are handled in the UCB
pascal compiler? The yacc specification does not appear to handle
them, but the compiler accepts them. For example, the yacc
specification for a record definition looks similar to the following.
record: RECORD_TOKEN fields END_TOKEN
fields: : field
| fields ';' field
;
The specification does not appear to accept a record definition whos
last field ends with a semi-colon.
Mike Burbidge
apple.com
[Not having seen the grammar, I'd expect to find either that it permits a
null field declaration, or that there's a gross lexical hack such as looking
ahead when it has a semicolon and discarding it if the next token is some sort
of end delimiter. -John]
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