> On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 14:47, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > Apparently the Parser module should be reentrant because it is careful to save 
> > and load its global data.
> > 
> > http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/caml-list/0258.html
> 
> Thanks for that link.  Xavier says:
> 
> "The module Parsing is supposed to be reentrant. Yes, there's some 
> global state inside, but we're careful to save and restore it across 
> entries. If you have a program demonstrating non-reentrance, please 
> send it to me privately and I'll try to fix that."

What about multithreaded code?

We wrote a couple of scripts that hack the output of ocamllex and
ocamlyacc, and a slightly modified lexing.ml and parsing.ml, that give
you purely functional lexers and parsers.  The modification is trivial
- just pass the state around in an argument, rather than a global
variable.

Let me know if you are interested.  I think we got some positive
noises from INRIA, but I'll leave it to them to comment re future
OCaml releases.  We didn't consider performance impact.

--KW 8-)

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