Re: [Flex-devel] Does Flex still need K&R support?

[Will E. <wl...@us...>]

I don't have strong felings either way, but I would say that insisting
on ANSI C is pretty reasonable these days.

On Friday, 17 October 2008, 11:41 am -0400, Joe Krahn <kr...@ni...> wrote:

> I added M4 macros to my modified skeleton to handle C and C++ functions 
> with a single macro, instead of one macro for each argument count to add 
> the reentrant argument. The idea was to simplify the skeleton body by 
> having better M4 macros.
> 
> My current implementation is derived from Bison's macros. It doesn't 
> look as pretty here because Flex uses double brackets, and results in a 
> syntax that is not really nicer looking than the previous method. It 
> will be easier to simplify the macros if K&R support is dropped. Does 
> anyone in the world still need it? If so, they can always use an older 
> release of Flex.
> 
> Joe
> 
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