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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr, Emmanuel Onzon <emmanuel.onzon@ens-lyon.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Parsing
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:03:14 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1182484994.7140.26.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706220014.39510.jon@ffconsultancy.com>

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 00:14 +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> I'm not a parser junkie, so please bear with me if this is silly...
> 
> The camlp4 stream parsing syntax extension is a very cool way to write 
> efficient parsers for simple grammars:

[]

> However, you must factor heads in the pattern matches. 

> Why is this? Is it because the streams are destructive? 

Yes.

> Are there other parser tools that integrate into the language and do a better 
> job?

Yes. Dypgen. I'm cc'ing to emmanuel, because a Dypgen parser using
a stream as an input would be very cool!

Dypgen is GLR, so all the cases get considered simultaneously.
The current build uses an LR0 kernel I think, so there's no
lookahead.

Also, dypgen is extensible, so you can build grammars at
run time and then parse with them. Doing that requires
a bit more code, some of which could be 'libraried' and the
rest probably supported with camlp4 macros if you're into that.

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-22  4:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-21 23:14 Parsing Jon Harrop
2007-06-21 23:26 ` [Caml-list] Parsing Jonathan Bryant
2007-06-21 23:45 ` Christian Stork
2007-06-22  4:03 ` skaller [this message]
2007-06-22 10:14 ` Bruno De Fraine
2007-06-24 17:17   ` Jon Harrop
2012-02-11  2:07 malc
2012-02-11  2:25 ` Ashish Agarwal
2012-02-11 17:41 ` Esther Baruk

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