From: Jonathan Maasland <nochoice@...4all.nl>
Date: 2006-08-22T21:09:58+09:00
Subject: parse.y (was Ripper and 1.8)

Hi all,

I've been poking around Ripper for the last couple a days and during 
that process I started to look at parse.y as it's currently in CVS (Ruby 
1.9 that is).
I'm not very knowledgeable about yacc and parsers in general but I just 
wanted to ask a quick question.

In parse.y I see alot of /*%%%*/ and /*% --code-- %*/"constructs" for 
example:
-----
primary         : literal
                | strings
                | xstring
                | regexp
                | words
                | qwords
                | var_ref
                | backref
                | tFID
                    {
                    /*%%%*/
                        $$ = NEW_FCALL($1, 0);
                    /*%
                        $$ = method_arg(dispatch1(fcall, $1), arg_new());
                    %*/
                    }
-------

I've started reading the bison manual but I can't find any reference to 
this construct.
My question: Are these lines just comments or are they instructing bison?

Again, any help is greatly appreciated.

With kind regards,
Jonathan