[Flex-help] Suggestions for improving Flex

[Joe K. <kr...@ni...>]

I posted some suggestions to flex-devel, but the list activity is so low 
that I decided to mention it here.

Flex seems to be in need of some maintenance. Flex itself says that the 
C++ feature is a mess. We also need good examples. It could use some 
improvement in working with Bison's newer features. There is also still 
an active Flex mail list on www.gnu.org that a few people have still 
tried to post to.

I did some experimental editing of the flex skeleton file. My goal was 
to organize the code such that all of the exported header stuff is in 
one place. It makes the skeleton file much cleaner. Right now, it seems 
to be suffering from a long series of edits without any efforts to 
reorganize it. A better organized skeleton file should also help to 
improve the C++ interface.

With the last Flex release being not too long ago, I assume there must 
still be some development progress. How much interest is there in 
improving Flex?

Joe Krahn