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From: marksm@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Mark S Madsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.lang.c++,comp.misc,comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: FYI: A Truly pd yacc. (zoo)
Keywords: yacc, pd
Message-ID: <1342@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Sep 89 16:05:26 GMT
References: <3577@yunexus.UUCP>
Reply-To: marksm@syma.susx.ac.uk (Mark S Madsen)
Organization: University of Sussex
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In article <3577@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes:
>copylefted skeleton, availability of a truly PD Yacc-compatible LALR
>parser generator ZOO was announced by its author Bob Corbett, who's parser
                  ^^^

Great effort and all that, but isn't there a rather heavily used,
popular, freely distributable archiver/unarchiver in wide circulation
that already uses this name???

A renaming is probably in order (IMHO) to avoid keeping confusion
springing eternal....

Mark
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