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