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Bug in eq.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Nov 18 19:24:40 1994

Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 19:24:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: info-andrew-bugs+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, dayotte@MIT.EDU

Repeat by:

Type the following into eq:

a'_b

(a prime sub b)
Try and print it.
It gets syntax error, instead of printing.

I think something is choking on the single quote.

a'  represents nicely in EQN as #a prime#

It is the subscript after the prime that gets confusing to the yacc grammar.

-wdc

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