Re: (newbie)RE: Book- Building cocoa applications..
Re: (newbie)RE: Book- Building cocoa applications..
- Subject: Re: (newbie)RE: Book- Building cocoa applications..
- From: Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 01:01:12 -0400
On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 06:52 PM, Jonas Roel wrote:
Could someone kindly explain to me why, in chapter 10 of the Building
Cocoa Applications book(OReilly), the authors chose to construct a
back-end in lex and yacc.
Here's a related question:
The back end tool used in this chapter is written to exit cleanly when
its input stream is closed. But, the front end is written to terminate
the child process, rather than simply closing the stream to it. Why are
such harsh measures taken, when simply closing the stream is cleaner?
I understand that for this simple example, there's virtually no
difference and no harm done by killing off the child process. I'm more
concerned about a newbie who, upon reading this chapter, may get the
impression that terminating child processes is preferred over asking
them nicely to exit.
sherm--
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