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Case-insensitive lexing

Joel Reymont
- Denis Bueno
- Joel Reymont
  - Martin Jambon
  - Joel Reymont
    - Erik de Castro Lopo
      - Jon Harrop
        
        Tom
        
        Jon Harrop
        
        Oliver Bandel
- Francois Rouaix
- skaller
- Jon Harrop

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Case-insensitive lexing

On Friday 23 February 2007 22:51, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Moving all the keywords into a hashtable, and using that to differentiate
> between keywords and identifiers actually works very well.

I never understood why people use a hash table rather than a pattern match in 
OCaml.

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
OCaml for Scientists
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