Re: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild: args to tags?

["Nicolas Pouillard" <nicolas.pouillard@inria.fr>]

Excerpts from skaller's message of Mon Sep 24 16:03:37 +0200 2007:
> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:29 +0200, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
> > Excerpts from jake.donham's message of Tue Sep 18 20:01:56 +0200 2007:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Is there a way to pass arguments to a preprocessor via the _tags file? 
> > 
> > Yes,  but  that's  not  what  you  want.  Moreover  this feature is not really
> > encouraged.
> 
> Just my 2c .. I think all this stuff is wrong. I think it should be
> done like this:

Being  able  to specify things like syntax extensions in the same place can be
very  precious  and not incompatible with an "in the file itself" way of doing
so.

> (* My Ocaml File .. *)
> (*#Syntax Mycamlp4syn *) (* for compatibility *)
> #syntax Mycamlp4syn;     (* better *)

This  sounds  like  a  good  idea.  That's  not a new one and it was our first
choice  when  designing  ocamlbuild. However after some reflections we decided
that  one  can  first do _tags method and then provide a way to read tags from
the file itself.

The  main  problem  with  the  solution with embedded tags is that one must at
least  define  a  how to read these annotations. This is not that easy since a
.ml  file  can  be  a  pre-processed file with a totally different syntax. One
moreover  don't  want  to  only  focus  on  OCaml  files  but also C files for
instance.

I hope this makes our first decision clear...

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai