On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Benjamin Geer wrote:

> Michal Moskal wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:38:22PM +0100, Benjamin Geer wrote:
> >>I'm writing an interpreter for a small language (to be released as an
> >>open source library), using ocamllex and ocamlyacc.  I'd like this
> >>language to support an instruction that, at compile time, recursively
> >>includes source code from another file.
> >>
> >>I searched the list archives and found a message
> >>(http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/caml-list/0258.html) [snip]
> >
> > Wouldn't it work to simply call parsing function from parser rule?
>
> Well, the message mentioned above gave me the impression that it
> wouldn't be quite so easy, apparently becuase the generated parsing
> function isn't defined with "let rec".   [snip]

The other point is the lex table generated with ocamlyacc comes inside the
start function.

> So I just wondered: has anyone
> done this?

As already mentioned in http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200309/msg00047.html
I did that by modifying ocamlyacc. Works pretty well.

I'll put the modified ocamlyacc at
http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/~goehler/ocamlyacc.tar.gz
Maybe its possible to modify the official ocamlyacc supporting these
features in future.

ciao

eckart


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	Eckart Goehler
	IAAT, Astronomy
	72076 Tuebingen
	e-mail : goehler@astro.uni-tuebingen.de

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