From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89151BC29 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:16:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net (pih-relay04.plus.net [212.159.14.131]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k79CGQ59001781 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:16:27 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=[10.0.0.5]) by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1GAmyu-0003jD-7b for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:16:16 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Lexing, parsing, symbolic manipulation and interpreting Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:16:21 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608091316.21676.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 44D9D21A.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; lexing:01 parsing:01 symbolic:01 ocaml:01 lexing:01 parsing:01 camlp:01 stream-based:01 parsers:01 ocamllex:01 ocamlyacc:01 symbolic:01 ocaml:01 frog:98 caml:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Following some interesting queries from a customer, I have expanded the "Benefits of OCaml" pages to include a more thorough discussing of lexing and parsing (both with camlp4's stream-based recusive descent parsers and ocamllex+ocamlyacc), evaluation (calculator example and a complete "TinyML" interpreter) and symbolic manipulation (differentiation, simplification and pretty printing). Check out "parsing" and "examples": http://www.ffconsultancy.com/free/ocaml/ I'd like to know what people think. :-) -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. Objective CAML for Scientists http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists