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From: "Till Varoquaux" <till.varoquaux@gmail.com>
To: "Nicolas Pouillard" <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jake Donham" <jake@donham.org>, caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] camlp4 parser accepts more than its grammar?
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:42:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d3ec8300806270142y3a80c3deo47b2cf4dbaeddafe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1214554558-sup-9348@ausone.inria.fr>

2008/6/27 Nicolas Pouillard <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>:
> Excerpts from Jake Donham's message of Thu Jun 26 23:10:20 +0200 2008:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I expected the following program to fail with a parse error, but it
>> happily ignores the extra '+'. I would be grateful if someone could
>> point out what I'm doing wrong. Thanks,
>
> Nothing wrong from you, that's a camlp4 known bug (PR#4551, PR#4513...).
>
>> open Camlp4.PreCast;;
>>
>> let expr = Gram.Entry.mk "expr";;
>> let stmt = Gram.Entry.mk "stmt";;
>>
>> EXTEND Gram
>>   expr: [[
>>     x = expr; "+"; y = expr -> x + y
>>   | x = INT -> int_of_string x
>>   ]];
>>   stmt:
>>   [[ e = expr; ";"; `EOI -> e ]];
>> END;;
>>
>> prerr_endline (string_of_int (Gram.parse_string stmt Loc.ghost "2 + 1 + ;"))
>>
>
> --
> Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai
>
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>


Note that you might even have suprises when using the standard Ocaml
parser: I consider grammar more like a guideline then an actual
specification.

type t = A of int | false of float

Till


  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-27  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-26 21:10 Jake Donham
2008-06-27  8:29 ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Pouillard
2008-06-27  8:42   ` Till Varoquaux [this message]
2008-07-01  0:01     ` Arthur Chan
2008-07-01  7:02       ` blue storm

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