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From: Will Leiserson <wml@alum.rpi.edu>
To: Ligia Nistor <ligia.nicoleta@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] multiple %start symbols in parser
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:30:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a66003f60906231330m77e3ed5dg47c9492120bb0063@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8401c38a0906231310t727c3e84na237c67e0ec1031c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ligia,

I haven't used ocamlyacc, but remember that in a PDA you can always
combine two into one.  E.g.,

---

main ::= ...
main2 ::= ...

becomes,

start ::= main | main2;
main ::= ...
main2 ::= ...

---

Thus, you can still have a single entry point, which (I imagine) is
how ocamlyacc wants things to be.

Will

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Ligia Nistor<ligia.nicoleta@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing a small parser in ocaml, using ocamlyacc. I need to define 2
> start symbols in my file parser.mly, but I don't know how to use them. The
> name of the 2 start symbols are "main"and "main2". I know how to use one
> start symbol, as here(taken form "calc.ml"):
>
>  let _ =
>           try
>             let in_channel = open_in "lines.txt" in
>
>             let lexbuf = Lexing.from_channel in_channel in
>             while true do
>               let result = HorsParser.main HorsLexer.token lexbuf in
>                 Hors.print_pair_list result;
>             done
>           with HorsLexer.Eof ->
>             exit 0
>
> but I don't know how to call the function "HorsParser.main2".
> I want to parse a part of the file "lines.txt" using the rule "main", and
> then, the other part of the file using "main2". Is this possible?
>  I tried to call "HorsParser.main2", but I got a "Parsing.parse_error".
>
> Thanks,
> Ligia
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-23 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-23 20:10 Ligia Nistor
2009-06-23 20:30 ` Will Leiserson [this message]
2009-06-23 21:37 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop

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