Query: genlex
OS: debian
Section: 3o
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Genlex(3o) OCaml library Genlex(3o)NAMEGenlex - A generic lexical analyzer. Module Module Genlex Documentation Module Genlex : sig end A generic lexical analyzer. This module implements a simple ``standard'' lexical analyzer, presented as a function from character streams to token streams. It imple- ments roughly the lexical conventions of Caml, but is parameterized by the set of keywords of your language. Example: a lexer suitable for a desk calculator is obtained by let lexer = make_lexer ["+";"-";"*";"/";"let";"="; ( ; ) ] The associated parser would be a function from token stream to, for instance, int , and would have rules such as: let parse_expr = parser [< 'Int n >] -> n | [< 'Kwd ( ; n = parse_expr; 'Kwd ) >] -> n | [< n1 = parse_expr; n2 = parse_remainder n1 >] -> n2 and parse_remainder n1 = parser [< 'Kwd + ; n2 = parse_expr >] -> n1+n2 | ... type token = | Kwd of string | Ident of string | Int of int | Float of float | String of string | Char of char The type of tokens. The lexical classes are: Int and Float for integer and floating-point numbers; String for string literals, enclosed in double quotes; Char for character literals, enclosed in single quotes; Ident for identifiers (either sequences of letters, digits, under- scores and quotes, or sequences of ``operator characters'' such as + , * , etc); and Kwd for keywords (either identifiers or single ``spe- cial characters'' such as ( , } , etc). val make_lexer : string list -> char Stream.t -> token Stream.t Construct the lexer function. The first argument is the list of keywords. An identifier s is returned as Kwd s if s belongs to this list, and as Ident s otherwise. A special character s is returned as Kwd s if s belongs to this list, and cause a lexical error (exception Parse_error ) otherwise. Blanks and newlines are skipped. Comments delimited by (* and *) are skipped as well, and can be nested. OCamldoc 2012-06-26 Genlex(3o)
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