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From: "Nathaniel Gray" <n8gray@gmail.com>
To: "Till Varoquaux" <till.varoquaux@gmail.com>
Cc: OCaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocamllex newline counting...
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:00:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aee06c9e0803111800o2efe8f10j2ddcd4be6174ef96@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d3ec8300803070157y6bb173eew865e2f232cb4c789@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Till Varoquaux <till.varoquaux@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Is there any fundamental reason I am missing why newlines are not
>  handled natively in the generated automaton?

My guess is that this is for the times you're working on the output of
a preprocessor.  It's common for preprocessors to add extra lines that
shouldn't be counted for error reporting purposes.  I agree that there
should be better support for the common case, though.  That's why I
reported this feature request for a helper function to factor out some
of the boilerplate code, which was granted:

http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3930

Cheers,
-n8

-- 
>>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------>
>>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu -->


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-12  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-07  9:57 Till Varoquaux
2008-03-07 15:39 ` [Caml-list] " Berke Durak
2008-03-12  1:00 ` Nathaniel Gray [this message]

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