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From: Alex Baretta <alex@barettadeit.com>
To: Christophe Raffalli <christophe.raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>,
	Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Yacc limitations
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:05:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4332BA29.1010304@barettadeit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4332ACF2.6020702@univ-savoie.fr>

Christophe Raffalli wrote:
> Alex Baretta a écrit :
> 
>> I am getting very much annoyed with the obtusity of the LALR-yacc parser
>> generators. I have unsurmountable difficulties at teaching ocamlyacc how
>> to parse SQL decently.
>>
>> What is the "way to go" in terms of parser generators for Ocaml? I'd
>> like to see if there is some level of agreement in the community on this
>> issue.
>>
> 
> may be give a try to elkhound
> (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~smcpeak/elkhound/) ? It generated both
> OCaml and C++. I haven't used it, But it seems nice and will remove the
> LALR(1) constraint .

Elkhound is C++ stuff. I really would prefer to avoid having to
introduce C++ in my toolchain. Is it possible to install Elkhound as a
Debian package and forget about it?

Alex


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-22 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-22  9:57 Alex Baretta
2005-09-22 13:09 ` [Caml-list] " Christophe Raffalli
2005-09-26 11:54   ` Pierre Boulet
     [not found] ` <4332ACF2.6020702@univ-savoie.fr>
2005-09-22 14:05   ` Alex Baretta [this message]
2005-09-22 16:37 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-09-23  6:05 ` Jake A. Kirilenko
2005-09-23 15:30 ` Alan Falloon
2005-09-22 16:46 yoann padioleau
2005-09-22 17:08 ` brogoff
2005-09-23  9:29 yoann padioleau
2005-09-23 12:51 ` Alex Baretta

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