I haven't really been following the discussion about the new
camlp4,
but it seems quite a lot has changed.
I only use some fairly simple extensions to parsing (a few
new infix
names, and forcing anonymous expressions "..." to
become "let it =
..."). However I also make two invasive changes to the
lexer:
* Modify the lexical rules for deciding whether a name
is a regular
or special identifier (not just based on case
of the first letter)
* Change the quotation delimiters to be `...` rather
than <<...>>
In the current camlp4, the only way I found to do this was
basically
to copy the existing lexer and edit it. Although it works,
it's ugly
and invariably means that I've had to change something with
almost
every new version of camlp4. Does the new camlp4 offer a
nicer way of
changing the lexer?
John.