To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Looking for a nail
From: John Prevost <prevost@maya.com>
In-Reply-To: Ian T Zimmerman's message of "Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:20:47 -0800"
Date: 27 Jan 1999 20:30:50 -0500
Accidentally sent this as a personal reply. Here it is to the list.
Ian T Zimmerman <itz@transbay.net> writes:
> > - adding start conditions a la flex to ocamllex
>
> I haven't thought of this really hard, but I bet there is already a
> way to do that. If there isn't, I would think hard again to find a
> cleaner, more functional (less stateful) way to do it. If the current
> condition is kept in a global as in flex, that just drops again the
> reentrancy that Christian has been working so hard to achieve.
The current condition already exists in ocamllex--this is what the
rule name is equivalent to. The one thing it doesn't do is support
the idea that some regexp -> action specs should be in more than one
rule--which is no real great loss.
I think making the languages of ocamllex and ocamlyacc slightly nicer
wouldn't be entirely out of order, as would writing them in Caml
rather than C.
John.
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