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Language particulars: lex and yacc
Hi!
I wonder why the language yacc cannot be selected, and why the language lex is listed under flex, the name of one of its implementations?
(OT: the BSD licences have duplicates…)
Hi Thorsten,
Ohcount, our open source line counter, doesn't recognize yacc. If you want to add it, we happily accept patches.
I must admit I am not a Lex/Flex expert, so I am a bit at the mercy of the community with regards to how Ohloh should support them.
Our recognition of Flex is based purely on discovery of *.mxml files, which I understand to be specific to Flex (and not Lex), but I could easily be wrong here.
http://www.mirbsd.org/man1/flex
There’s nothing XML in there ☺
Basically, lex files are *.l and yacc files are *.y, and they do have some kind of syntax, but…
… well, Ohcount does not dive into patch files (unidiff or context diff) either, just says there is no code. I bet that one is easier to fix. Can’t promise anything though, been busy fixing NetBSD software.