Re: [Caml-list] Parser state variables

[Erik de Castro Lopo <ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com>]

Alain Frisch wrote:

> Another one is to make semantic actions return functions which take the
> state as an argument.

I've also used a variation on this which places a filter function
with signature 

    filter : state -> token -> token

between the lexer and the parser and modifies the stream of tokens 
as required by the current state. 

Erik
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