[Menhir-list] Error reporting

[Francois Pottier]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:31:57PM +0100, Rémi Dewitte wrote:
> It does help, a very good start. We could modify the ParseError to accept a
> string parameter to provide a better error message.

Yes, maybe we could. I need to think a bit about this.

> It seems that exception is stored as a value _eRR, why ?

I seem to recall that we wanted the keyword "$syntaxerror" to have the same
number of characters as the ocaml code      "(raise _eRR)" so as to avoid
affecting source code locations when the change is performed. But I am not
sure if it's really important.

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