From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id DAA24193; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 03:59:43 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA24439 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 03:59:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from plinky.bolt-action.com (node-d8e9cca3.powerinter.net [216.233.204.163]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g152xdX03475; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 03:59:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from checkerlap.d6.com (node-d8e9cca2.powerinter.net [216.233.204.162]) by plinky.bolt-action.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g1531vW20097; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 19:01:57 -0800 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020204185723.036f4dc0@arda.pair.com> X-Sender: checker@arda.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 18:59:13 -0800 To: Daniel de Rauglaudre , caml-list@inria.fr From: Chris Hecker Subject: Re: [Caml-list] syntax change (was: camlp4o problem) In-Reply-To: <20020205034719.A23069@verdot.inria.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020204150243.037b5af0@arda.pair.com> <20020204164154.D2338@verdot.inria.fr> <9BE7FA48-1771-11D6-A336-003065BDAA76@ece.ucsb.edu> <15454.38553.300800.53941@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20020204155242.B2338@verdot.inria.fr> <20020204150839.GE14738@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> <20020204164154.D2338@verdot.inria.fr> <20020204162513.GA22263@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> <4.3.2.7.2.20020204150243.037b5af0@arda.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >It is not mandatory. >LL(1) is just easy to parse. When things are based on a simple system >and are easy to program, they have good properties for possible future >extensions and improvements. The friends I talked to about it were surprised by the fact that it's a hand-written parser in the first place. Was there something about the camlp4 that made it better to hand-write an RD parser as opposed to using a generator (modified to allow the meta-programming stuff in p4, of course)? Chris ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr