On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 04:35:23 +0000, Jon Harrop <jon@jdh30.plus.com> wrote:

> Yes, left recursion is definitely the way to go in general. But has anyone
> ever had a problem with right-recursion when using ocamlyacc? Is there a
> theoretical reason why this is not a problem with ocamlyacc?

In parsing.ml you will find a function approprately named growstacks.
For very big lists you will get an exception from Array.make. In my
experiment this happened after about 3x10^6 elements. OTOH bison/flex
use AFAIK a fixed stack and fails (as you said) on smaller lists.

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