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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Array.make exception and parser

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Francois Pottier
<Francois.Pottier@inria.fr> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 08:30:48PM +0100, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
>> So everybody trades developer convenience for end user convenience --
>> I mean, the syntax errors produced by LR parsers are just terrible,
>
> It is true that ocamlyacc (and Menhir) offer essentially no support for
> explaining parse errors.

But Menhir's support for grammar debugging is very nice and already a
strong enough argument to switch over from ocamlyacc!

Happy New Year.