[Flex-devel] yytext and similar in -P scanners

[Petr M. <pma...@re...>]

Hi,

a bug has been opened against flex in Red Hat bugzilla:
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239695

Quote:
> Previous flex releases parsed args such that "flex -is" was
> acceptable. This release requires the form "flex -i -s" to
> do the same thing.

Perhaps there were reasons behind this change, but grouping of options
seems to me a reasonable thing to support.  I'm sending the patch that
implements it this way: if short option doesn't allow an argument, but
there is an argument string, error is not reported, but the string is
parsed next time around as another short option.

Comments welcome.

Thanks,
PM