From: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
To: ben kuin <benkuin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jake Donham <jake@donham.org>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] what do I need to know to understand camlp4
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:06:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0D59721B-70ED-44B9-B450-FF3A26D81CFF@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinDB4h-=95GV7cM48cR10Ydcvgzty9gVU=nXjD_@mail.gmail.com>
On Sep 23, 2010, at 11:49 AM, ben kuin wrote:
> thanks Jake, after browsing through those articles I came to the
> conclusion that for understanding and using camlp4 the notion of
> quotations and antiquotations is fundamental. My absolute lack of
> knowledge in this area might be a reason why I can't figure out how
> camlp4 works.
Do you know how macros work in other languages ?
You could have a look at Lisp macros which are simpler than OCaml macros:
http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/macros.html
Understanding lisp macros could be a good step towards understanding ocaml macros.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Jake Donham <jake@donham.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:25 AM, bluestorm <bluestorm.dylc@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> For an accessible introduction to modern (>= 3.10) Camlp4, you may be
>>> interested in Jake Donham's blog post series "Reading Camlp4" :
>>> http://ambassadortothecomputers.blogspot.com/search/label/camlp4
>>
>> You can also see the articles in sequence at
>>
>> http://ambassadortothecomputers.blogspot.com/p/reading-camlp4.html
>>
>> which I recommend since later articles depend on earlier material.
>>
>> Jake
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-23 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-23 14:56 ben kuin
2010-09-23 15:21 ` [Caml-list] " David MENTRE
2010-09-23 19:50 ` ben kuin
2010-09-24 0:15 ` Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva
2010-09-24 7:35 ` David House
2010-09-27 11:43 ` Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva
2010-09-24 7:48 ` David MENTRE
2010-09-23 15:25 ` bluestorm
2010-09-23 16:23 ` Jake Donham
2010-09-23 18:49 ` ben kuin
2010-09-23 18:54 ` Jake Donham
2010-09-23 19:06 ` Yoann Padioleau [this message]
2010-09-23 16:28 ` Michael Ekstrand
2010-09-23 16:35 ` Sylvain Le Gall
[not found] ` <1285259219.1820.15.camel@knine>
2010-09-23 18:43 ` [Caml-list] " ben kuin
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