doc: one of the fixes for an ambiguous grammar was ambiguous too

Reported by Аскар Сафин.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2012-11/msg00024.html

* doc/bison.texi (Reduce/Reduce): Fix the resulting ambiguity using
precedence/associativity directives.
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Akim Demaille
2012-11-22 15:49:18 +01:00
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@@ -7117,6 +7117,58 @@ redirects:
@end group
@end example
Yet this proposal introduces another kind of ambiguity! The input
@samp{word word} can be parsed as a single @code{words} composed of two
@samp{word}s, or as two one-@code{word} @code{words} (and likewise for
@code{redirect}/@code{redirects}). However this ambiguity is now a
shift/reduce conflict, and therefore it can now be addressed with precedence
directives.
To simplify the matter, we will proceed with @code{word} and @code{redirect}
being tokens: @code{"word"} and @code{"redirect"}.
To prefer the longest @code{words}, the conflict between the token
@code{"word"} and the rule @samp{sequence: sequence words} must be resolved
as a shift. To this end, we use the same techniques as exposed above, see
@ref{Non Operators,, Using Precedence For Non Operators}. One solution
relies on precedences: use @code{%prec} to give a lower precedence to the
rule:
@example
%nonassoc "word"
%nonassoc "sequence"
%%
@group
sequence:
/* empty */
| sequence word %prec "sequence"
| sequence redirect %prec "sequence"
;
@end group
@group
words:
word
| words "word"
;
@end group
@end example
Another solution relies on associativity: provide both the token and the
rule with the same precedence, but make them right-associative:
@example
%right "word" "redirect"
%%
@group
sequence:
/* empty */
| sequence word %prec "word"
| sequence redirect %prec "redirect"
;
@end group
@end example
@node Mysterious Conflicts
@section Mysterious Conflicts
@cindex Mysterious Conflicts
@@ -11835,6 +11887,10 @@ London, Department of Computer Science, TR-00-12 (December 2000).
@c LocalWords: subdirectory Solaris nonassociativity perror schemas Malloy ints
@c LocalWords: Scannerless ispell american ChangeLog smallexample CSTYPE CLTYPE
@c LocalWords: clval CDEBUG cdebug deftypeopx yyterminate
@c LocalWords: parsers parser's
@c LocalWords: associativity subclasses precedences unresolvable runnable
@c LocalWords: allocators subunit initializations unreferenced untyped
@c LocalWords: errorVerbose subtype subtypes
@c Local Variables:
@c ispell-dictionary: "american"