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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: Francois.Pottier@inria.fr
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Array.make exception and parser
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 20:30:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin_=PdNJ_iOqE+g9otb0JEv74iW=Co1Qx2JjXmz@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110104174545.GA1535@yquem.inria.fr>

> For what it's worth, here is my answer: an LR parser generator (like Menhir)
> accepts a larger class of grammars without refactoring (no need to eliminate
> left recursion, identify common left factors, etc.) and is also able to
> *explain* why the grammar is ambiguous (or rather, why it lies outside the LR
> class), which a combinator-based approach cannot do.

So everybody trades developer convenience for end user convenience --
I mean, the syntax errors produced by LR parsers are just terrible,
the ocaml compiler is here to witness that.

That's depressing.

Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-04 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-04 13:41 Jean Krivine
2011-01-04 14:56 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-01-04 14:57   ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-01-04 14:57 ` Török Edwin
2011-01-04 15:14   ` Jean Krivine
2011-01-04 15:31     ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-01-04 16:22       ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2011-01-04 16:42         ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-01-04 17:03           ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2011-01-04 17:04       ` Jean Krivine
2011-01-04 17:22         ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-01-04 15:38     ` bluestorm
2011-01-04 17:43       ` Jean Krivine
     [not found]       ` <1125074892.441923.1294163043602.JavaMail.root@zmbs2.inria.fr>
2011-01-04 17:53         ` Francois Pottier
     [not found]     ` <1259991756.440008.1294155536392.JavaMail.root@zmbs2.inria.fr>
2011-01-04 17:45       ` Francois Pottier
2011-01-04 19:30         ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2011-01-04 19:52           ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2011-01-04 20:36             ` Daniel Bünzli
     [not found]         ` <1263353434.442766.1294169448342.JavaMail.root@zmbs2.inria.fr>
2011-01-04 20:31           ` Francois Pottier
2011-01-04 20:40             ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2011-01-04 21:03               ` Török Edwin
2011-01-05  3:24                 ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2011-01-05 14:12             ` Boris Yakobowski
2011-01-05 21:12             ` Boris Yakobowski
2011-01-05 13:37 ` Xavier Leroy
2011-01-05 13:46   ` Jean Krivine

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