From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E3E9BB81 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:48:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jBF8m0Rb017816 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:48:00 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA29085 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:48:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from yquem.inria.fr (yquem.inria.fr [128.93.8.37]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jBF8ln9F017789; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:47:49 +0100 Received: by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix, from userid 18965) id 3AFA1BB81; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:47:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:47:49 +0100 From: Francois Pottier To: Stefan Monnier Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha release of Menhir, an LR(1) parser generator for ocaml Message-ID: <20051215084749.GD1966@yquem.inria.fr> Reply-To: Francois.Pottier@inria.fr References: <20051212175838.GA8502@yquem.inria.fr> <87acf250oi.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <87acf250oi.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 43A12DC0.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 43A12DB5.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 parser:01 ocaml:01 tokens:01 wrote:01 pottier:01 pottier:01 parse:02 francois:02 francois:02 fpottier:02 stream:04 dec:04 thu:05 inria:05 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Hello, On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:35:40AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I wish it had something like ml-yacc's automatic handling of syntax-errors > (which tries to insert/delete tokens in the input stream until the parse > succeeds). Do you mean instead of or in addition to the current mechanism? (I assume instead of. I don't know if the two can be made to coexist.) I am not particularly happy with Menhir's current error mechanism, which attempts to follow yacc's. If you could explain to us why ML-Yacc's approach is superior, that would be great. -- François Pottier Francois.Pottier@inria.fr http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/