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<HR><H2>Re: [COLD] Upgrading DB's</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fri Feb 23 01:02:52 1996
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 22:52:20 -0700 (MST)
From: Brandon Gillespie &lt;brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com&gt;
To: coldstuff@cold.org
In-Reply-To: &lt;199602230255.SAA05084@yam.tenetwork.com&gt;
Reply-To: coldstuff@cold.org

On Thu, 22 Feb 1996, Jeff Kesselman wrote:
&gt; Can you give me a really compelling reason not to stick with 2-10 
&gt; until we at least have a better parser for v3?

Because there is no way to make the 0.3 parser better without using it :)

Also, 0.3-8's textdb parser is much better.

&gt; (BTW: The old parser, while btter, is far from perfect also.  There 
&gt; are some really stupid mistakes in the grammer.  for instance
&gt;    &lt;$afrob,[foo,bar]&gt;.frobrtn() 
&gt; is a syntax error, with parens its okay, like
&gt;    (&lt;$afrob,[foo,bar&gt;).frobrtn
&gt; 
&gt; bad bad bad grammer design.

design implies it was intended, this is a bug in the ColdC parser
(grammar.y, not the textdb parser).  Right now &lt;..&gt;.method() doesn't
compile anywhere, and (&lt;..&gt;).method() it will always decompile as 
(&lt;..&gt;).method(), so it is at least consistent.  It is just a bug I havn't 
gotten around to fixing. 

-Brandon
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