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Maximum non-constant constructors

Tom Hawkins
- Alain Frisch
  - Tom Hawkins
    - Stefan Monnier
  - Richard Jones
    - Jean-Christophe Filliatre
      - Eric Cooper
        
        Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
        
        Richard Jones
        
        Jon Harrop
        
        Jacques Garrigue

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Tom Hawkins <tom@c...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Maximum non-constant constructors

Alain Frisch wrote:
> Tom Hawkins wrote:
> 
>> I just discovered another limitation: the maximum number of 
>> non-constant constructors is 246.
>>
>> My modified OCaml parser generator (ocamlyacc with ints -- see 
>> previous post) is producing a parser that consumes 342 different 
>> tokens types.
>>
>> Are there any ways to bypass this limitation?
> 
> 
> Polymorphic variants.

Good idea, but ocamlyacc does not accept `Some_token as valid syntax.

I'm starting to think I should invest some time developing a new parser 
generator for OCaml.

-Tom

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