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From: laurae@sfsup.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Yacc and lex with C++; is it possible?
Message-ID: <1232@sfsup.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 13:26:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 13:26:21 1987
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Summary: yacc and C++

In article <4475@columbia.UUCP>, beshers@sylvester.columbia.edu.UUCP writes:
> 
> How well do yacc and lex work with C++?  Are there major problems, minor
> kludges.  Must yacc and lex be re-written in C++, and, if so, has this been
> done?
> 
> Cliff Beshers
> Columbia University CS Department
> beshers@sylvester.columbia.edu

Lex and yacc can be combined with C++ without any problem.
(In fact it's done frequently.)
The only restriction I can think of is that YYSTYPE (if defined as a union)
can't contain class objects with constructors, since the behavior is undefined.
						--le