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From: Christian Stork <cstork@ics.uci.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] New Camlp4 behavior (problem with rules starting with OPT)
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:16:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070414051613.GB31862@stirner.roentgeninstitut.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd67f63a0704130649w39be151fq7b0c9bb03af22d37@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:49:32PM +0200, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
> On 4/13/07, Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> >With camlp4 3.10.0+beta, the following syntax extension does not work,
> >but it used to work in the "old" camlp4.
> 
> IMHO having rules starting with OPT don't fit very well with the
> camlp4 parsing mechanism.
> 
> It works in the 3.09 version but I don't know why.
> 
> I think that you shouldn't rely on that anymore.

Hmm, then the same applies to rules starting with LIST0, too?  I think
this has at least to be documented.

Why not "simply" expand such rules into to obvious pair of rules?  After
all, OPT is just a shorthand for the programmer anyway.  Or are you
anticipating problems specifying such rules for DELETE?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-14  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-13  8:27 Martin Jambon
2007-04-13 13:49 ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Pouillard
2007-04-13 21:43   ` Martin Jambon
2007-04-14  5:16   ` Christian Stork [this message]
2007-04-14  5:20 ` Christian Stork

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