From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA28718; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:42:45 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA28757 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:42:44 +0100 (MET) Received: from verdot.inria.fr (verdot.inria.fr [128.93.11.7]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g158giH03065 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:42:44 +0100 (MET) Received: (from ddr@localhost) by verdot.inria.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA23624 for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:42:44 +0100 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:42:44 +0100 From: Daniel de Rauglaudre To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] syntax change (was: camlp4o problem) Message-ID: <20020205094244.A23442@verdot.inria.fr> References: <20020204164154.D2338@verdot.inria.fr> <9BE7FA48-1771-11D6-A336-003065BDAA76@ece.ucsb.edu> <15454.38553.300800.53941@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20020204155242.B2338@verdot.inria.fr> <20020204150839.GE14738@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> <20020204164154.D2338@verdot.inria.fr> <20020204162513.GA22263@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> <4.3.2.7.2.20020204150243.037b5af0@arda.pair.com> <20020205034719.A23069@verdot.inria.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20020204185723.036f4dc0@arda.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020204185723.036f4dc0@arda.pair.com>; from checker@d6.com on Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:59:13PM -0800 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi, On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:59:13PM -0800, Chris Hecker wrote: > The friends I talked to about it were surprised by the fact that > it's a hand-written parser in the first place. What do you mean by "hand-written parser in the first place"? Do you mean the sources in camlp4/ocaml_src/* ? No, they are not hand-written: they are pretty printed from the sources in camlp4/*. I never edit them, I just do "make bootstrap_sources" to update them. > Was there something about the camlp4 that made it better to > hand-write an RD parser as opposed to using a generator (modified to > allow the meta-programming stuff in p4, of course)? Could you reformulate your question? I don't understand. What is an *RD* parser? -- Daniel de RAUGLAUDRE daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/ ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr