Editors and ocaml revised syntax

Editors and ocaml revised syntax

[Al Ermolaew]

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Hallo,
A little distraction from discussions on language development to our 
daily problems.

We use camlp4 for code generation. However, camlp4 has a bug associated 
with optional parameters -it does not work for standard syntax. It works 
only for revised syntax. This is the reason why we have passed on to it. 
Basically, revised syntax is more correct and the code reads easier, it 
also eliminates certain drawbacks of standart syntax. One serious 
problem is that there are no correct editor-programs which support this 
syntax.

If someone from distribution uses revised syntax, could you please tell 
what you use. There no plugins for emacs or eclipse. There is one only 
for vim, but it also fails to work correctly.

Thanks in advance!

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From: Al Ermolaew <alermo@alermo.ru>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Editors and ocaml revised syntax
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:36:39 +0300
Message-ID: <47A6DCA7.7070506@alermo.ru>

Hallo,
A little distraction from discussions on language development to our 
daily problems.

We use camlp4 for code generation. However, camlp4 has a bug associated 
with optional parameters -it does not work for standard syntax. It works 
only for revised syntax. This is the reason why we have passed on to it. 
Basically, revised syntax is more correct and the code reads easier, it 
also eliminates certain drawbacks of standart syntax. One serious 
problem is that there are no correct editor-programs which support this 
syntax.
If someone from distribution uses revised syntax, could you please tell 
what you use. There no plugins for emacs or eclipse. There is one only 
for vim, but it also fails to work correctly.

Thanks in advance!

Re: [Caml-list] Editors and ocaml revised syntax

[Nicolas Pouillard]

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Excerpts from Al Ermolaew's message of Mon Feb 04 16:27:29 +0100 2008:
> Hallo,
> A little distraction from discussions on language development to our 
> daily problems.
> 
> We use camlp4 for code generation. However, camlp4 has a bug associated 
> with optional parameters -it does not work for standard syntax. It works 
> only for revised syntax. This is the reason why we have passed on to it. 
> Basically, revised syntax is more correct and the code reads easier, it 
> also eliminates certain drawbacks of standart syntax. One serious 
> problem is that there are no correct editor-programs which support this 
> syntax.

Can  you  show  a  precise bug w.r.t to original syntax of optional parameters
with the latest camlp4. I think that's a fixed bug.

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai

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