[guinan!kayvan@apple.com: Bug in Bison documentation]

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From: Leonard H. Tower Jr.
Date: Sat, 27 May 1989 07:54

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Date: Wed, 24 May 89 15:47:10 PDT
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Subject: Bug in Bison documentation
From: Kayvan Sylvan <guinan!kayvan@apple.com>
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The first example in the bison manual (RPN calc) includes a sample session
which is wrong.

The example as it stands causes a parse error.

Diff follows:

			---Kayvan


*** bison.texinfo~	Wed May 24 15:30:38 1989
--- bison.texinfo	Wed May 24 15:30:39 1989
***************
*** 1094,1098
  4 9 +
  13
! 3 * 7 + 3 4 5 *+-
  -13
  3 7 + 3 4 5 * + - n              @r{Note the unary minus, @samp{n}}

--- 1094,1098 -----
  4 9 +
  13
! 1 3 * 7 + 3 4 5 *+-
  -13
  3 7 + 3 4 5 * + - n              @r{Note the unary minus, @samp{n}}

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