Yecc bug

[Robert Virding]

Ooh so, it does. That's what you get for not using tha absolute latest 
release. :-) Now it seems to work.

Robert

Bjorn Gustavsson wrote:
> 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
>>
> 
>