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[Caml-list] ocamllex+ocamlyacc and not parsing properly

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From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] ocamllex+ocamlyacc and not parsing properly

On Monday 08 August 2005 06:03, Jonathan Roewen wrote:
> BTW: A tutorial on these sorts of things (i.e. something a bit more
> complicated than the calculator example) would be great to have as a
> resource.

Given that the grammar is tiny and the lexer has almost as much OCaml code as 
lexing rules, I think this is a good candidate for not using lexing and 
parsing at all. If you wrote this as an OCaml function, how long would it be?

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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