Re: [Caml-list] Different types of streams

[Christian RINDERKNECHT <rinderkn@hugo.int-evry.fr>]

Hi Daniel,

On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:49:06AM +0200, Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote:
> 
> I am the implementor of the streams. Actually, I have never been interested
> in the streams themselves, but more in parsing. [...]
> 
> I am not sure that streams built with [< >] are so interesting, especially
> if they are destinated to a real parser.

As you may remember, I wrote a fairly complex and big parser (~4000
lines) using the streams [< >]. The story is that I first computed by
hand the EBNF grammar, and then the streams [< >] were of great help
because their syntax is close to the BNF one. This made maintenance
easier too.

As an aside: the performance of my parser was not a concern,
feasability was the main challenge. I nevertheless understand it can
be an important issue. I understood there was a plan to remove the [<
>] from OCaml, and to request users using camlp4, is it correct?

Best regards,


Christian

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