todo: update

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 65 deletions

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 5558c2a3..ac61ac26 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,28 +1,24 @@
 * Bison 3.6
 ** Documentation
 - yyexpected_tokens in all the languages.
-- remove yysyntax_error_arguments.
 - YYNOMEM
 - i18n in Java
 
-** Java
-Check api.token.raw
-
 ** Naming conventions
-yysyntax_error_arguments should be yy_syntax_error_arguments, since it's a
-private implementation detail.
-
 There's no good reason to use the "yy" prefix in parser::context, is there?
 See also the case of Java.  We should keep the prefix for private
 implementation details, but maybe not for public APIs.
 
-** User token number, internal synbol number, external token number, etc.
+** User token number, internal symbol number, external token number, etc.
 There is some confusion over these terms, which is even a problem for
 translators.  We need something clear, especially if we provide access to
 the symbol numbers (which would be useful for custom error messages).
 
 We could use "number" and "code".
 
+Update: the current best options would be "token kind" and "symbol kind",
+instead of "token type" and "symbol type".
+
 *** The documentation
 
 You can explicitly specify the numeric code for a token type...
@@ -50,75 +46,18 @@ uses "user token number" in most places.
 *** M4
 Make it consistent with the rest (it uses "user_number" and "number").
 
-** Symbol numbers
-Giving names to symbol numbers would be useful in custom error messages.  It
-would actually also make the following point gracefully handled (status of
-YYERRCODE, YYUNDEFTOK, etc.).  Possibly we could also define YYEMPTY (twice:
-as a token and as a symbol).  And YYEOF.
-
-** Consistency
-YYUNDEFTOK is an internal symbol number, as YYTERROR.
-But YYERRCODE is an external token number.
-
 ** Java: EOF
 We should be able to redefine EOF like we do in C.
 
 ** Java: calc.at
 Stop hard-coding "Calc".  Adjust local.at (look for FIXME).
 
-** Java: _
-We must not use _ in Java, it is becoming a keyword in Java 9.
-
-examples/java/calc/Calc.java:998: warning: '_' used as an identifier
-  "$end", "error", "$undefined", _("end of line"), _("number"), "'='",
-                                 ^
-  (use of '_' as an identifier might not be supported in releases after Java SE 8)
-
 ** doc
 I feel it's ugly to use the GNU style to declare functions in the doc.  It
 generates tons of white space in the page, and may contribute to bad page
 breaks.
 
 ** improve syntax errors (UTF-8, internationalization)
-Bison depends on the current locale.  For instance:
-
-%define parse.error verbose
-%code top {
- #include <stdio.h>
- #include <stdlib.h>
- void yyerror(const char* msg) { fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", msg); }
- int yylex() { return 0; }
-}
-%%
-exp: "↦" | "🎅🐃" | '\n'
-%%
-int main() { return yyparse(); }
-
-gives different results with/without LC_ALL=C.
-
-$ LC_ALL=C /opt/local/bin/bison /tmp/mangle.y -o ascii.c
-$ /opt/local/bin/bison /tmp/mangle.y -o utf8.c
-$ diff -u ascii.c utf8.c -I#line
---- ascii.c     2019-01-12 08:15:35.878010093 +0100
-+++ utf8.c      2019-01-12 08:15:38.856495929 +0100
-@@ -415,9 +415,8 @@
-    First, the terminals, then, starting at YYNTOKENS, nonterminals.  */
- static const char *const yytname[] =
- {
--  "$end", "error", "$undefined", "\"\\342\\206\\246\"",
--  "\"\\360\\237\\216\\205\\360\\237\\220\\203\"", "'\\n'", "$accept",
--  "exp", YY_NULLPTR
-+  "$end", "error", "$undefined", "\"↦\"", "\"🎅🐃\"", "'\\n'",
-+  "$accept", "exp", YY_NULLPTR
- };
- #endif
-
-$ gcc ascii.c -o ascii && ./ascii
-syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting "\342\206\246" or "\360\237\216\205\360\237\220\203" or '\n'
-$ gcc utf8.c -o utf8 && ./utf8
-syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ↦ or 🎅🐃 or '\n'
-
-
 While at it, we should stop using "$end" by default, in favor of "end of
 file", or "end of input", whatever.  See how lalr1.java does that.