A micro compiler in Ocaml

Re:A micro compiler in Ocaml by kristianp on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @03:11AM (#7506608)

Informative comment, but surely the purpose of the article is to teach ocaml, not the lexing&parsing tools, which require more ocaml knowledge?

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Re:A micro compiler in Ocaml by toolslive on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @06:11PM (#7512100)

The author doesn't appear to be an experienced OCaml programmer, and misses lots of opportunities for simpler code. For example

let is_digit c = let code = Char.code c in code >= Char.code('0') && code <= Char.code('9')

Could have been written: let is_digit = function '0'..'9' -> true | _ -> false

So the purpose probably wasn't to teach OCaml.

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