Hi Gabriel,

Thanks! The line number and char number in Lexing.position needs to be
initialized and updated (by "Lexing.new_line lexbuf"). This feature only
exists in 3.11 and above. So It could be historic reason. I'll dig more
into it.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:34 AM, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Junsong,
>
> I suspect that this simply comes from the fact that ocamldoc started out
> as a separate project and thus had to develop its own location handling. If
> there is a clean patch to move to Lexing.position, feel free to propose it.
> If this requires invasive changes with a larger chance of regressions, it's
> maybe not worth it.
>
> (Note that there seem to be some uses of Lexing.position already in the
> file, but only in some cases. I don't know the detail and you may have some
> "git log" mining to understand them.)
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Junsong Li <ljs.darkfish@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I am wondering why ocamldoc lexers (odoc_lexer.mll and
>> odoc_text_lexer.mll) do not use Lexing.position but keep tracking line
>> number and char number explicitly. Does this have anything to do with the
>> Unicode?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Junsong
>>
>
>