From: Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@mpi-sws.org>
To: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: ocamllex and python-style indentation
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:16:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A4B7DE7.3080606@mpi-sws.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnh4mulo.hil.sylvain@gallu.homelinux.org>
Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> May I recommend you to write this in a more simple way:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> rule lex =
> parse eof { () }
> | "(*" { start := pos lexbuf; lexNestComment lexbuf; lex lexbuf }
>
> and lexNestComment =
> parse eof { error (loc 2) "unterminated comment" }
> | "(*" { lexNestComment lexbuf }
> | "*)" { () }
> | _ { lexNestComment lexbuf }
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
Mh, I think in lexNestComment it should at least say
| "(*" { lexNestComment lexbuf; lexNestComment lexbuf }
That might work. I am not sure how well the various lexer generators
handle arbitrary recursive invocations and reentrance, though. Have you
tried it? If it works, yes, that's certainly a nicer version.
- Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 15:16 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
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 ` Andreas Rossberg [this message]
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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