shift-reduce conflict,

Hello,


I am writing a parser file (input to bison) for a toy JAVA compiler and
am running into a shift-reduce conflict that could not be resolved. The
problem involves


<cast-expression> -> '(' <type> ')' <expression>


where <type> could be any ID. The problem arises when bison parses
something like '(string)' and confuses whether to reduce it to an
expression or keep on parsing because it could be a cast-expression.


Thanks in advance.


--Thinh.
[This is a famous problem in parsing C. The usual hack is to have the
lexer return different tokens for type names and other names, and to do
something revolting in typedef statements. -John]
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