From: Mike Lin <nilekim@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@mpi-sws.org>
Cc: Yitzhak Mandelbaum <yitzhak@research.att.com>,
Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@andrej.com>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamllex and python-style indentation
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:13:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a1a1a0c0906301913t1dce3eebie91c7cc94f015481@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1750DDE9-4FC6-4657-9687-58240F520A70@mpi-sws.org>
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Andreas Rossberg<rossberg@mpi-sws.org> wrote:
> On Jun 30, 2009, at 22.19 h, Mike Lin wrote:
>>
>> More generally, you've got parentheses, comments, and string literals,
>> and you need to know to ignore whitespace within any of those -- and
>> to ignore e.g. an open parenthesis that occurs within a comment, or a
>> close comment that occurs within a string literal. So inevitably
>> you've got to lex and parse at some level to make this work for a
>> practical language.
>
> Comments and string literals are no problem, since the lex wrapper will
> never see anything inside them as separate tokens anyway.
OCaml comments can be nested, and must be nested parenthetically. :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-11 12:57 Andrej Bauer
2009-06-11 13:12 ` [Caml-list] " yoann padioleau
2009-06-11 13:21 ` Andreas Rossberg
2009-06-11 13:44 ` Martin Jambon
2009-06-12 8:20 ` Andrej Bauer
2009-06-12 12:56 ` Martin Jambon
2009-06-12 13:34 ` Martin Jambon
2009-06-12 15:43 ` Andreas Rossberg
2009-06-30 18:58 ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2009-06-30 20:19 ` Mike Lin
2009-06-30 22:06 ` Andreas Rossberg
2009-07-01 2:13 ` Mike Lin [this message]
2009-07-01 7:31 ` Andreas Rossberg
2009-07-01 14:02 ` Mike Lin
2009-07-01 14:17 ` Andreas Rossberg
2009-07-01 14:21 ` Andreas Rossberg
2009-07-01 14:37 ` Mike Lin
2009-07-01 15:03 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2009-07-01 15:16 ` [Caml-list] " Andreas Rossberg
2009-07-01 16:26 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2009-07-01 15:19 ` [Caml-list] " Martin Jambon
2009-07-01 15:43 ` Andreas Rossberg
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