From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: yet another bison question
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 18:57:02 -0700
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Gary R Sekinger wrote:

> My problem is that I don't want to impose an order on the statements
> within the block. I could use brute force and specify all 362880 (9!)
> permeation's, but that method would really suck! A second idea was to
> make all of the statements optional and then at the "EndGeneralBlock"
> token check to make sure that they were all specified, but this also
> seems like a hack.

This is the standard way of doing such things.

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