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Language "OCaml Light"

1 Lexical conventions

Identifiers

Lexis
  I : ident 
  ::= capitalized-ident | lowercase-ident

  CI : capitalized-ident 
  ::= uppercase ( uppercase | lowercase | decimal | '_' | '\'' )*

  LI : lowercase-ident 
  ::= lowercase ( uppercase | lowercase | decimal | '_' | '\'' )*
    | '_'       ( uppercase | lowercase | decimal | '_' | '\'' )+
    // restricted to exclude the keyword '_' used in patterns
  
  uppercase ::= 'A'-'Z'

  lowercase ::= 'a'-'z'

  decimal   ::= '0'-'9'
Semantics
  id[[ _:ident ]] : ids
Rule
  id[[ I ]] = \"I\"

Integer literals

Syntax
  IL : integer-literal
  ::= '-'? _ natural-literal

  NL : natural-literal
  ::= decimal-plus 
    | ('0x'|'0X') hexadecimal-plus
    | ('0o'|'0O') octal-plus
    | ('0b'|'0B') binary-plus
Lexis
  DP : decimal-plus ::= decimal+
  
  HP : hexadecimal-plus ::= ( decimal | 'A'-'F' | 'a'-'f' )+

  OP : octal-plus ::= ( '0'-'7' )+

  BP : binary-plus ::= ( '0'|'1' )+

Floating-point literals

Syntax
  FL : float-literal
  ::= '-'? _ non-negative-float-literal

  NNFL : non-negative-float-literal
  ::= decimal-plus _ '.' _ decimal-plus
    | decimal-plus _ '.'
    | decimal-plus _ '.' _ decimal-plus _ float-exponent
    | decimal-plus _ '.' _ float-exponent
    | decimal-plus _ float-exponent

  FE : float-exponent
  ::= ('e'|'E') _ ('+'|'-')? _ decimal-plus
Rule
  [[ DP1 '.' DP2 ]] : non-negative-float-literal = [[ DP1 '.' DP2 'e' '1' ]]
Rule
  [[ DP '.'      ]] : non-negative-float-literal = [[ DP '.' '0' 'e' '1' ]]
Rule
  [[ DP '.' FE   ]] : non-negative-float-literal = [[ DP '.' '0' FE  ]]
Rule
  [[ DP   FE     ]] : non-negative-float-literal = [[ DP '.' '0' FE  ]]
Rule
  [[ 'e' '+' DP ]] : float-exponent = [[ 'e' DP ]]
Rule
  [[ 'E' '+' DP ]] : float-exponent = [[ 'e' DP ]]
Rule
  [[ 'E' '-' DP ]] : float-exponent = [[ 'e' '-' DP ]]
Semantics
  float-value[[ _:float-literal ]] : =>implemented-floats

float-value[[ _ ]] is unspecified if the literal value is not representable in floats(implemented-floats-format).

Rule
  float-value[[ '-' NNFL ]] =
    float-negate(implemented-floats-format, float-value[[ NNFL]])
Rule
  float-value[[ DP1 '.' DP2 'e' DP3 ]] = 
    decimal-float(
      implemented-floats-format, \"DP1\", \"DP2\", \"DP3\") 
Rule
  float-value[[ DP1 '.' DP2 'e' '-' DP3 ]] = 
    decimal-float(
      implemented-floats-format, \"DP1\", \"DP2\", cons('-', \"DP3\"))

Character literals

Syntax
  CL : char-literal 
  ::= '\'' _ regular-char _ '\''
    | '\'' _ escape-sequence _ '\''

  ES : escape-sequence 
  ::= '\\' _ escaped-char
    | '\\' _ escaped-char-code
Lexis
  RC : regular-char 
  ::= ~ ( '\'' | '\\' )

  EC : escaped-char 
  ::= '\\' | '"' | '\'' | 'n' | 't' | 'b' | 'r' | ' '

  ECC : escaped-char-code 
  ::= decimal decimal decimal
Semantics
  character-value[[ _:char-literal ]] : =>implemented-characters
Rule
  character-value[[ '\'' RC '\'' ]] = ascii-character(\"RC\")
Rule
  character-value[[ '\'' ES '\'' ]] = capture[[ ES ]]
Semantics
  capture[[ _:escape-sequence ]] : implemented-characters
Rule
  capture[[ '\' '\' ]]  = backslash
Rule
  capture[[ '\' '\'' ]] = '\''
Rule
  capture[[ '\' 'n' ]]  = line-feed
Rule
  capture[[ '\' 't' ]]  = horizontal-tab
Rule
  capture[[ '\' 'b' ]]  = backspace
Rule
  capture[[ '\' 'r' ]]  = carriage-return
Rule
  capture[[ '\' ECC ]]  = 
    checked implemented-character unicode-character decimal-natural(\"ECC\")

String literals

Syntax
  SL : string-literal 
  ::= '"' _ string-character-star _ '"'

  SCS : string-character-star
  ::= string-character _ string-character-star
    | ( )
  
  SC : string-character
  ::= regular-string-char
    | escape-sequence//  | '\\' _ '\n' _ (' '|'\t')*
Lexis
  RSC : regular-string-char
  ::= ~ ('"' | '\\')
Semantics
  string-value[[ _:string-literal ]] : =>implemented-strings
Rule
  string-value[[ '"' SCS '"' ]] = 
    checked implemented-string [ string-chars[[ SCS ]] ]
Semantics
  string-chars[[ _:string-character-star ]] : =>implemented-characters*
Rule
  string-chars[[  ]] =
Rule
  string-chars[[ SC SCS ]] = string-capture[[ SC ]], string-chars[[ SCS ]]
Semantics
  string-capture[[ _:string-character ]] : implemented-characters
Rule
  string-capture[[ RSC ]] = ascii-character(\"RSC\")
Rule
  string-capture[[ ES ]] = capture[[ ES ]]

Prefix and infix symbols

Lexis
//  infix-symbol
//  ::= ( '=' | '<' | '>' | '@' | '^' | '|'
//      | '&' | '+' | '-' | '*' | '/' | '$' | '%' ) operator-char*
 
  PS : prefix-symbol    
  ::= '!'       operator-char*
    | ('?'|'~') operator-char+  
 
  operator-char
  ::= '!' | '$' | '%' | '&' | '*' | '+' | '-' | '.' | '/'
    | ':' | '<' | '=' | '>' | '?' | '@' | '^' | '|' | '~'

  operator-char-not-asterisk
  ::= '!' | '$' | '%' | '&'       | '+' | '-' | '.' | '/'
    | ':' | '<' | '=' | '>' | '?' | '@' | '^' | '|' | '~'

  operator-char-not-bar
  ::= '!' | '$' | '%' | '&' | '*' | '+' | '-' | '.' | '/'
    | ':' | '<' | '=' | '>' | '?' | '@' | '^'       | '~'

  operator-char-not-ampersand
  ::= '!' | '$' | '%'       | '*' | '+' | '-' | '.' | '/'
    | ':' | '<' | '=' | '>' | '?' | '@' | '^' | '|' | '~'

Keywords

Lexis
  keyword 
  ::= 'and'        | 'as'       | 'assert' | 'asr'     | 'begin'   | 'class'
    | 'constraint' | 'do'       | 'done'   | 'downto'  | 'else'    | 'end'
    | 'exception'  | 'external' | 'false'  | 'for'     | 'fun'     | 'function'
    | 'functor'    | 'if'       | 'in'     | 'include' | 'inherit' | 'initializer'
    | 'land'       | 'lazy'     | 'let'    | 'lor'     | 'lsl'     | 'lsr'
    | 'lxor'       | 'match'    | 'method' | 'mod'     | 'module'  | 'mutable' 
    | 'new'        | 'nonrec'   | 'object' | 'of'      | 'open'    | 'or'     
    | 'private'    | 'rec'      | 'sig'    | 'struct'  | 'then'    | 'to'
    | 'true'       | 'try'      | 'type'   | 'val'     | 'virtual' | 'when' 
    | 'while'      | 'with'