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From: Michal Moskal <malekith@pld-linux.org>
To: "Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla" <dido@imperium.ph>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] line number information in abstract syntax trees
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:14:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030915111458.GA26769@roke.freak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030915075339.GA20719@imperium.ph>

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:53:39PM +0800, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
> Note that all the record types have additional fields that look like
> 'plineno:int' and every variant type has an int tacked on somewhere.
> That int is supposed to contain the line number.
> 
> This works just fine, but it just seems to me like such a grossly ugly
> hack into what is otherwise an elegant-looking data structure.  Anyone
> have style guidelines 

type location = { l_line : int; l_file : string; }

type decl = { decl_location : location; decl_raw : raw_decl; }
and raw_decl =
  | Foo
  | Bar of decl list
  ...

This is the way used in OCaml compiler itself and few my compilers.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-15 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-15  7:53 Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2003-09-15 11:14 ` Michal Moskal [this message]
2003-09-16 20:07 ` skaller
2003-09-17  8:44 ` Christian Lindig
2003-09-18 19:01   ` skaller
2003-09-19  6:50     ` Christian Lindig

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