On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 08:22 +0200, Alain Frisch wrote:
> skaller wrote:
> > Are there any plans to extend Ocamlyacc to allow state variables,
> > in a manner similar to the recent extensions to Ocamllex to
> > allow them?
> > 
> > At present, there are two workarounds:
> 
> Another one is to make semantic actions return functions which take the
> state as an argument. This is similar to introducing a new data type to
> represent pure concrete parse trees and then post-process these trees to
> produce abstract syntax.

Aha! Another win for higher order functions! Thanks for this
insight. Dang -- so obvious when you see it :) 

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