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From: Kenneth Knowles <kknowles@soe.ucsc.edu>
To: Geoff Wozniak <geoff@wozniak.ca>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: some comments on ocaml{lex,yacc} from a novice's POV
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:12:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050406051252.GA24471@tallman.ucsc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vf70tsk5.fsf@nagash.wacky>

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:52:58AM -0400, Geoff Wozniak wrote:
> I was doing this in OCaml, but I found that I had to constantly create new
> types to represent the different forms that could be found in the parse
> tree.  

This sounds quite familiar.  One idea is to use polymorphic variants and
immediate objects instead of conventional variants and record types (though this
can create some scary error messages).  I've only ever done this for very rapid
prototyping, though.

- Kenn


  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-06  5:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-01 11:32 bug in "developing applications with objective caml" (english translation) Jack Andrews
2005-04-01 20:03 ` [Caml-list] " Ken Rose
2005-04-02  5:10   ` some comments on ocaml{lex,yacc} from a novice's POV Jack Andrews
2005-04-02  7:02     ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-04-02  7:38     ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-04-03 16:18       ` Parser combinators [was: some comments on ocaml{lex,yacc} from a novice's POV] Alex Baretta
2005-04-04  0:40         ` [Caml-list] Parser combinators Jacques Garrigue
2005-04-05 16:06       ` [Caml-list] some comments on ocaml{lex,yacc} from a novice's POV Oliver Bandel
     [not found]   ` <50130.202.164.198.46.1112418605.squirrel@www.ivorykite.com>
2005-04-04  3:42     ` Jack Andrews
2005-04-04  5:44       ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-04-04  9:51         ` Jon Harrop
2005-04-05 12:00           ` Geoff Wozniak
2005-04-05 13:49             ` Jon Harrop
2005-04-05 14:26               ` Richard Jones
2005-04-05 16:13                 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-04-06  4:52               ` Geoff Wozniak
2005-04-06  5:12                 ` Kenneth Knowles [this message]
2005-04-06  6:15                 ` some comments on ocaml{lex,yacc} from anovice's POV Jack Andrews
2005-04-04 10:29         ` [Caml-list] Re: some comments on ocaml{lex,yacc} from a novice's POV Daan Leijen
2005-04-04 17:39         ` Paul Snively
2005-04-04 18:16           ` skaller
2005-04-04 18:49             ` Paul Snively

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