Re: [Caml-list] Error messages with dypgen

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

On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 08:20 +0100, Joel Reymont wrote:
> I understand that dypgen throws an exception when a syntax error is  
> found.
> 
> How do I get it to produce line/column numbers when that happens?
> 
> It would be rather groovy if the the exception carried  
> symbol_start_pos, symbol_end_pos, rhs_start_pos, rhs_end_pos from the  
> dyp record since this information is available at the time that the  
> exception is raised. 

No it isn't. Dypgen uses lexbufs for compatibility with the 
broken Ocamlyacc interface. Dypgen lets you use ulex or
other lexer as well. The type of the error thrown by the
automaton should not be polluted by positional information
that has no reasonable standard specification.

If you want this information, you can look it up yourself
in the lexbuf. The parser has no business at all examining
the lexbuf, the lexbuf belongs to the lexer.

> A simple error function built into dypgen could then take a message  
> and raise the syntax error exception with all the required info.

An error function is a good idea, except the Ocamlyacc style
interface is broken so there's no way to pass it so it
would have to be global.

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