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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Alain Frisch <Alain.Frisch@inria.fr>
Cc: Caml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Parser state variables
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:11:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1130483516.28547.26.camel@rosella> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4361C38B.8090309@inria.fr>

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 :) 

-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net


  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-28  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-27  7:35 skaller
2005-10-28  6:22 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2005-10-28  7:11   ` skaller [this message]
2005-10-31 22:32   ` Erik de Castro Lopo

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