From: "Nicolas Pouillard" <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>
To: David Teller <david.teller@univ-orleans.fr>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Building a parser with Camlp4
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:57:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196243387-sup-4653@port-ext2.ensta.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1196234040.6361.7.camel@Blefuscu>
Excerpts from David Teller's message of Wed Nov 28 08:14:00 +0100 2007:
> Hi list (Nicolas Pouillard, in particular),
Hi,
> I'll probably need to rewrite my (not-fully-complete-yet) parser for
> JavaScript 2 and I'm considering using Camlp4 as a parser generator for
> a completely-non-OCaml target language. Now, before I do that, I have a
> few questions in mind:
>
> * What is the power of Camlp4 ? The documentation says LL(1+epsilon) but
> the examples look like LL(k) with a possibly large k.
Yes `k' is the number of terminals at the beginning of a rule.
> * How do I plug-in a lexer written with ULex ?
It don't remember but cduce does that, and is updated to the new version of Camlp4.
> * Camlp4 looks relatively slow -- is it much slower than Yacc ?
Yes, that's the cost of dynamic extensibility.
--
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-28 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-28 7:14 David Teller
2007-11-28 9:57 ` Nicolas Pouillard [this message]
2007-11-28 12:38 ` [Caml-list] " Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2007-12-08 14:02 ` David Teller
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