[LLVMdev] LLVM OCaml Tutorial

[Jon Harrop]

On Wednesday 22 April 2009 12:15:09 Chris Wailes wrote:
> That is perfectly understandable.  My problem was that I had never seen the
> stream syntax before.  While I'm no OCaml master, I have used it for a
> while and so it might be that other people coming to the tutorial may have
> the same experience.

This page may be of help:

  http://www.ffconsultancy.com/ocaml/benefits/parsing.html

It describes recursive descent parsing using the camlp4 stream parser 
extension and lex/yacc.

You may also be interested in this LLVM-based example in OCaml that uses 
camlp4 for parsing directly:

  http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/msg/5aee553df34548e2

> Secondly, it seems odd to be writing custom parsers 
> and lexers after tools like Bison and Flex (and ocamllex and ocamlyacc)
> have been around for some time.  Is there any particular reason the C++
> tutorial is using  hand coded parsers and lexers?  Is there a technical
> reason?

I found flex and bison really tedious to use from C++. That was a long time 
ago and there are probably better alternatives now though. Still much worse 
than anything with first-class lexical closures and algebraic datatypes, of 
course. :-)

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Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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