Ambiguous Types in Flex, how to handle?

Hello.


Using FLEX/BISON, I'm building a small database program that will
handle a small subset of SQL.


My Database handles two types, FLOAT and DOLLAR.


How should I handle the ambiguous "1.23" which can be interpreted by
flex as a DOLLAR and a FLOAT (FLOAT will be IEEE, and DOLLAR will be a
64 bit int with a fixed, or implied, decimal place)??


As it stands, flex can't make the determination, but at what point in
the process should the determination be made? In the grammar? or in
my program when I am working with the AST that BISON creates?


I guess I am looking for advice from the experienced..


Thank you


Randall Fox
[Probably in the AST, since you may be doing other optimizations there
as well. -John]

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