Yecc bug

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Have you tried R11B?

In R11B, quoted_atom/1 looks like this:

quoted_atom(Atom) ->
    io_lib:fwrite('~w', [Atom]).

/Bjorn

Robert Virding <robert.virding@REDACTED> writes:

> There is a bug in yecc when using terminals whose names have
> characters which need \ escaping, for example the atom '\\'. The
> terminal atoms are generated without the extra "\" characters. This
> means that the generated .erl file will not compile correctly and the
> only fix is to go in by hand and add the "\" character.
> 
> The bug is in the function quoted_atom which used to generate the atom
> name string of terminals:
> 
> quoted_atom(Atom) ->
>     [$'|atom_to_list(Atom)++"'"].
> 
> There are no problems using atoms like these in productions as the
> code for generating the productions use erl_pp:expr which does it
> right.
> 
> Robert
> 

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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB