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From: "SooHyoung Oh" <shoh@duonix.com>
To: "caml-list" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: [Caml-list] function vs. parser
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:20:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006501c13c2c$e833eff0$1e01a8c0@hama> (raw)


Hi!

Could anyone explain me why "parser" was introduced in Ocaml?
As you know, "function" is using in the caml light-instead of "parser".
"parser" must be a reserved word like "let" and "function", right?

I reviewed  "The Objective Caml system release 3.02", specially
  1.8 Pretty-printing and parsing
      it introduces lex and parser.
  7.1 Streams and stream parser
      it shows the syntax of parser and stream matching.

But I don't know why "parser" was introduced.
Here is an example.

# let next = parser
  [< 'x >] -> x
  | [<>] -> raise (Failure "end of stream")
  ;;
val next : 'a Stream.t -> 'a = <fun>

Thanks in advance for your help.

---
SooHyoung Oh

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             reply	other threads:[~2001-09-13  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-13  8:20 SooHyoung Oh [this message]
2001-09-13  8:48 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-09-13 14:13   ` Brian Rogoff
2001-09-13 16:09     ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-09-13 16:50       ` Brian Rogoff
2001-09-13 16:51       ` Pierre Weis
2001-09-13 18:09 Krishnaswami, Neel
2001-09-13 20:55 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-09-13 21:49 Krishnaswami, Neel
2001-09-14 12:50 ` Gerd Stolpmann

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