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Module `BatGenlex`Source

A generic lexical analyzer.

This module implements a simple ``standard'' lexical analyzer, presented as a function from character streams to token streams. It implements roughly the lexical conventions of OCaml, 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
                         | ...

author Jacques Garrigue

author David Teller

Sourcetype token = Genlex.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, underscores and quotes, or sequences of ``operator characters'' such as +, *, etc); and Kwd for keywords (either identifiers or single ``special characters'' such as (, }, etc).

Sourceval 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.

Sourcetype lexer_error =

| IllegalCharacter of char
| NotReallyAChar
| NotReallyAnEscape
| EndOfStream

Sourceexception LexerError of lexer_error * int

Sourcetype t

A lexer

Sourceval of_list : string list -> t

Create a lexer from a list of keywords

Sourceval to_stream_filter : t -> char Stream.t -> token Stream.t

Apply the lexer to a stream.

Sourceval to_enum_filter : t -> char BatEnum.t -> token BatEnum.t

Apply the lexer to an enum.

Sourceval to_lazy_list_filter : t -> char BatLazyList.t -> token BatLazyList.t

Apply the lexer to a lazy list.

Sourceval string_of_token : token -> string

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Sourcemodule Languages : sig ... end

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