From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2007-10-26T15:29:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Racc error recovery

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:14:20PM +0900, Giles Bowkett wrote:
> > I'm writing a racc parser, and I need to recover from parse errors.
> ...
> > Unfortunately I can't seem to find any good documentation or examples on
> > error recovery.  I've read the Racc documentation about on_error and
> 
> Wild stab in the dark: is there any equivalent stuff in yacc you could
> use as a starting point?

Yes there is.  I was hoping I could get an answer without digging up my
lex & yacc book. ;-)  Fortunately I found it and there is an error
recovery section that has definitely helped.

> 
> I realize it probably isn't modeled that closely, but that's the first
> thought I had.
> 
> Wild stab in the dark, part 2: tried using Sass instead? It's a CSS
> DSL. Or do you have to work with the CSS you've already got?

No.  I'm trying to parse CSS, not generate it.

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