I’m in the process of writing parser for a YAML-like language, that extends JSON, and is specified in two layers: a lexical layer, and a grammatical layer. The current implementation uses sedlex + camlp5 extensible grammars. Obviously performance is really important for this sort of thing: I used …

High-performance lexing in OCaml

Chet_Murthy April 1, 2021, 7:09pm 21

Cool, thank you! I’ll have a try when I implement my menhir parser.

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