On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:39:31AM +1000, skaller wrote:
> > Is there a better way of doing this ?
> Do I understand right: you're leveraging the camlp4 library
> code to build a general purpose LL(1) parser which will support
> runtime extension?

yep, I tought it was a kinda of creative way of using it... 

now I've to convince ocamlfind to compile it properly :) 

I'm not sure that this can be a general solution,
but for my small calculator-like example works well.

> > Does anybody have an example on how to write a simple lexer that I can
> > use instead ?
> Hmmm ... don't know about 'simple lexer' but I have a library
> function that can translate a representation of a labelled sequence
> of regexps into a tokeniser.
I'll be happy to have a look at this function...

> You may want an NFA based interpreter instead though.
I was thinking of using the Token interface in the Camlp4 library

that is, if f = Token.lexer_func_of_parser <some parser>
maybe your function can be used here ...

then the glexer would be something like:

{ Token.tok_func = f;
  Token.tok_using = (fun _ -> ());
  Token.tok_removing = (fun _ -> ());
  Token.tok_match = Token.default_match;
  Token.tok_text = Token.lexer_text }

:)
p

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