Re: [Caml-list] Fairly dumb ocamlyacc question

["Yann Régis-Gianas" <yann.regisgianas@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Have you tried menhir :

http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/menhir/menhir.html.en ?

Menhir generates an explanation of your conflicts and is 90%
compatible with ocamlyacc.

Hope this helps,

--
Yann R.-G.

On 10/24/06, David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com> wrote:
> This should be obvious, but I can't quite solve it!
>
> If I use the following ocamlyacc script:
>
> ------------
> %token BEFORE_KWD      AFTER_KWD
> %token FAILS_KWD
>
> %token       <int> WEEKDAY
> %token    <string> NAME
>
> %type <unit> top
> %start top
> %%
>
> top:
>   WEEKDAY AFTER_KWD NAME BEFORE_KWD NAME FAILS_KWD top {()}
> | WEEKDAY relative NAME {()}
> ;
>
> relative:
>   BEFORE_KWD {()}
> | AFTER_KWD {()}
> ;
> ------------
>
> Then I get a shift/reduce having parsed WEEKDAY AFTER_KWD... the parser
> can't figure out what to do if it sees NAME. This problem can be made to
> disappear by expanding the relative rules to give:
>
> top:
>   WEEKDAY AFTER_KWD NAME BEFORE_KWD NAME FAILS_KWD top {()}
> | WEEKDAY AFTER_KWD NAME {()}
> | WEEKDAY BEFORE_KWD NAME {()}
> ;
>
> I've tried a couple of tricks with %prec but can't get the parser to come
> out the same way with the first rule... please could someone put me out of
> my misery!!
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> David
>
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-- 
Yann