From: Norman Davis <ndavis@ti.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Stream parsing - caml light vs. ocaml
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 22:22:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BMSMTP8966713870a0384552@dpcmail.itg.ti.com> (raw)
Hello,
I am reading "Functional programming using Caml Light" by Michel Mauny, chapter
10 on Streams and Parsers. The "spaces" function (used to remove the next
continuous segment of whitespace) shown there is :
# let rec spaces = function
# [< '' '|'\t'|'\n'; spaces _ >] -> ()
#| [< >] -> ();;
I tried converting it to Objective Caml :
# let rec spaces = parser
[< '' '|'\t'|'\n'; spaces >] -> ()
| [< >] -> ();;
val spaces : char Stream.t -> unit = <fun>
# let s = Stream.of_string " ;";;
val s : char Stream.t = <abstr>
# spaces s;;
- : unit = ()
# Stream.next s;;
- : char = ' '
# Stream.next s;;
- : char = ';'
The stream s had two space characters followed by a semicolon.
After "spaces s", I expected "Stream.next s" to return
a semicolon. What is the correct way to write "spaces" so that it removes all
whitespace from the front of the stream, not just a single whitespace
character.
Thanks.
Norman Davis
ndavis@ti.com
next reply other threads:[~1998-06-01 9:42 UTC|newest]
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1998-06-01 5:22 Norman Davis [this message]
1998-06-01 10:48 ` Toby Moth
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