Re: Please assist: if/else condition problem with lex/yacc

On Wed, 26 May 2010 18:21:24 -0400, George Neuner
<gneuner2@comcast.net> wrote:


>"Engineering a Compiler". I'm not sure who to attribute this to,
>there is no face page in the PDF. It is *not* Cooper & Torczon which
>is available (but not free) as an ebook. It appears to be a fairly
>decent intro text.
>http://www.esnips.com/doc/6b2edf7d-fc7a-4950-8b84-6a9de5a23858/Engineering-a-compiler
>If somebody knows who authored this work, please tell me.
>
>[The PDF appears to be a copy of the unedited MSS for Cooper and Torczon, "Engineering
>a Compiler", Morgan Kaufman, 2004. I found it by typing the first sentence of Chapter 1
>into Google Books. They would doubtless prefer that people buy a legal copy of the
>book, which is better than the MSS due to the excellent editors at Morgan Kaufman.
>Follow this link and comp.compilers gets the referral fee:
>http://net.gurus.org/bk/a/155860698X -John]


Obviously I wasn't as thorough as John was.


I have Cooper & Torczon and it did occur to me to look at it, but
there were enough differences in the organization, table of contents,
etc. that I did not think the PDF was the same book. On closer
examination I believe John is correct.


Unfortunately this PDF is available from many sites ... I just picked
the first one Google found to mention.


I have sent a note of apology to Keith Cooper and Linda Torczon. I
also apologize to everyone here for promoting an illicit book.


George
[It may not be illicit -- it's fairly common to send around manuscript
drafts for comment, but I can assure people from experience that a
good editor makes a book much better. Compare the mss of Linkers and
Loaders which you can still find on the web to the published book,
edited by the same group who did Cooper and Torczon, and the
improvements are obvious. -John]

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