[Flex-devel] Skeleton question

[Mighty Jo <mig...@gm...>]

Good evening folks,

I've been working on overhauling the scanner generation code to move all of
the target language emissions into the skeleton.  I don't know yet whether
the state tables can be generalized this way, but I've identified a few
dozen sites where C code emissions can be converted to setting m4
definitions and performing checks in the skeleton.

In the skeleton itself I've found similar checks coded two ways.  One is
the collection of m4_check_something macros.  The other is the set of
%check_something statements which are translated into m4 macro calls by
skelout().

Which style do you prefer going forward?   I won't remove either of them in
my work, but I have to augment at least one of them and I'd like to know
the community's thoughts.

-Joe