Q: writing YACC rules

Hi,


I'm writing a parser for quite a while now, but everytime I have to
extend the syntax, I bounce into errors that the parser is reducing my
token sequences always according to the wrong rule - albeit a rule
that has a strong resemblence with the correct one.


The books I've learned it from explain how you can write your syntax,
but they don't give a methodology to follow when writing fail-safe
YACC-rules ( "fail-safe" just means that the user provides the parser
with a correct syntax ).


Suggestions are greatly appreciated,




Bert
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[Odd, that's never been much of a problem for me. These parsers wouldn't
have a lot of shift/reduce or reduce/reduce conflicts, would they? -John]
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