Re: [Caml-list] petty complaints

[John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>]

Brian Rogoff wrote:

>     Another unrelated trifling question concerns the syntax of numerical
> literals. Would it be possible to allow a la Ada the insertion of _s in
> a numerical literal so instead of 1000000,10000000,and 100000000 we could
> write 1_000_000, 10_000_000, 100_000_000? Of course, as in Ada, you could
> allow wrongly positioned or superfluous _s (1_00_00_______0) but I think
> this trivial change can make reading numbers a bit nicer.

	I use the following lexer rules: note that the special
handling of 0 prefixed decimal numbers is to allow warnings
to be given for C heads that think 077 is octal :-)

(* integers *)
let bin_lit  = '0' ('b' | 'B') (underscore? bindigit) +
let oct_lit  = '0' ('o' | 'O') (underscore? octdigit) +
let dec_lit  = '0' ('d' | 'D') (underscore? digit) +
let nz_dec_lit  = nzdigit (underscore? digit) *
let z_dec_lit  = '0' (underscore? digit) *
let hex_lit  = '0' ('x' | 'X') (underscore? hexdigit)  +

(* floats *)
let decimal_string = digit (underscore? digit) *
let fixed_literal = decimal_string ? '.' decimal_string | 
  decimal_string '.' decimal_string?
let exponent = 'E' ('+'|'-')? decimal_string
let floating_literal = fixed_literal exponent? | decimal_string exponent

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