Re: [Caml-list] Re: [Menhir-list] There's an elephant in the room: Solution to sharing a symbol table

[skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 06:58 +0100, Joel Reymont wrote:
> On May 2, 2007, at 6:44 AM, Francois Pottier wrote:

> How do you write parse above with the %parameter approach to ensure  
> that parse ALWAYS uses a new symbol table that is shared between the  
> lexer and the parser in this parsing run?

You can't. Don't be confused by functor interface in Menhir. 
It is useless for maintaining state.

What you need is a feature I asked for .. the possibility of
passing a state argument to the parser the same way you can
now do for ocamllex: you just write

	rule fred state = parse ...


and now 'state' is passed to all actions. That's ocamllex,
we need the same for parsing.

[I thought this was implemented but can't see it anywhere
in the Menhir manual]

This IS a way to hack this .. by using the ocamllex feature
and cheating by wrapping stuff inside tokens so that
the parser user actions can get at the state object.


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