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* [Caml-list] Notion of lexer state in ocamllex?
@ 2003-08-29 20:44 David Van Horn
  2003-08-30  9:22 ` Michal Moskal
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Van Horn @ 2003-08-29 20:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: caml-list

I'm new to ocamllex and I am trying to translate a lexer written using CUP
(for Java), but I don't understand how parser state is accomplished in
ocamllex.  For example, I have:

<YYINITIAL>"/*" { yybegin(INCOMMENT); }
<INCOMMENT>"*/" { yybegin(YYINITIAL); }
<INCOMMENT>[^\*]+    { }

Any ideas how to do this in ocamllex?  Thanks.

-d

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* Re: [Caml-list] Notion of lexer state in ocamllex?
  2003-08-29 20:44 [Caml-list] Notion of lexer state in ocamllex? David Van Horn
@ 2003-08-30  9:22 ` Michal Moskal
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Michal Moskal @ 2003-08-30  9:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Van Horn; +Cc: caml-list

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 03:44:06PM -0500, David Van Horn wrote:
> I'm new to ocamllex and I am trying to translate a lexer written using CUP
> (for Java), but I don't understand how parser state is accomplished in
> ocamllex.  For example, I have:
> 
> <YYINITIAL>"/*" { yybegin(INCOMMENT); }
> <INCOMMENT>"*/" { yybegin(YYINITIAL); }
> <INCOMMENT>[^\*]+    { }
> 
> Any ideas how to do this in ocamllex?  Thanks.

rule token = parse
  ...
  | "/*" 	{ comment lexbuf; token lexbuf }
  ...
and comment = parse
  "*/" 		{ () }
  _ 		{ comment lexbuf }


Or something like this.

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