Re: [Caml-list] Custom lexer in Camlp4

["Nicolas Pouillard" <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>]

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Excerpts from Hezekiah M. Carty's message of Tue Jun 24 17:43:52 +0200 2008:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Jeremy Yallop wrote:
> > On a related note I had a crazy brainwave that we could use camlp4 to
> > use 'ordinary' operators in an overloaded context.  Something like:
> >
> >  INT64 (2L * n / 3L)
> >
> > The INT64(expr) macro would inspect the AST of expr and change + ->
> > Int64.add etc.  Of course one can do this using the pa_openin macro
> > and a module which overrides (+) etc, but maybe this is better?  I was
> > going to try modifying parts of virt-df to use this syntax to see if
> > it would be beneficial.
> 
> I toyed around with a simple extension to the pa_float example on the
> camlp4 wiki.  The modified version is here:

[...]

> Sadly camlp4 3.10+ does not play well with the toplevel, so these are
> difficult to work with interactively.  I do use pa_context in several
> places though, and it seems to work well.

Can you elaborate on that?

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Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai

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