Hello, I’m looking for some grammar files to parse OCaml code with ANTLR or JFlex. The final goal is to add support for the language to an open source editor for Android (and then build an app, as I did for iOS recently ). Help is welcomed to make this project real!

Add some links that can be useful: https://askra.de/software/ocaml-doc/4.02/full-grammar.html https://ocaml.org/manual/language.html [image] ocaml/ocaml trunk/parsing The core OCaml system: compilers, runtime system, base libraries

There is a Tree-Sitter grammar for OCaml, not sure if it might be useful for you: GitHub - tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ocaml: OCaml grammar for tree-sitter

Thanks for your answer, I knew about it but as Tree-sitter is its own parsing engine that isn’t compatible with ANTLR, I didn’t mention it here.

I just found out bnfc : The BNF Converter (bnfc) is a compiler construction tool generating a compiler front-end from a Labelled BNF grammar. It can generate an ANTLR grammar for you given a BNF description of OCaml’s syntax. The first link you gave may be a good starting point but it’s not upto…

I’m going to take a deeper look this weekend, if I can write a BNF description.

The OCaml grammar in the compiler distribution is written for Menhir. I wonder what it would take to postprocess it to produce a grammar suitable for ocamlyacc? B/c in the past I’ve taken yacc grammars for other languages (e.g. Golang … bletch) and “ported” them to work with ocamlyacc; perhaps the…

Looking for an OCaml parser in ANTLR or JFlex

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NathanFallet April 14, 2021, 5:19pm 2

Add some links that can be useful:

https://askra.de/software/ocaml-doc/4.02/full-grammar.html
https://ocaml.org/manual/language.html

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