Re: [Camlp4] Antiquotation and unescaped strings

["Nicolas Pouillard" <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>]

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Excerpts from Gabriel Kerneis's message of Mon Feb 18 15:34:12 +0100 2008:
> Hi,
Hi,

> I've got a problem with antiquotations and strings in camlp4. I've got a
> parser (xmlp4, used in Ocsigen) written with camlp4 which has to deal
> with strings. 
> This parser provides a quotation mechanism to let the user input XML in
> a natural way within an Ocaml program.
> 
> Basically, the problem is the following expression (in the parser's
> code):
> 
>   | PCData(s) -> [ <:expr< XHTML.EncodedPCData $str:s$ >> ]

the  in  the  antiquotation $str:s$ of <:expr<...>> the 's' string is supposed
to  be  properly  escaped,  that's  not  any OCaml string, that's any litteral
OCaml   string   (some   chars   between   double   quote).   You  should  use
$str:String.escaped s$ or the shortcut for it $`str:s$.

[...]

> Anyway, if this is an intended behavior, the explanation should be put 
> in BIG BOLD RED letters on the camlp4 wiki, on the quotation page. This
> would help a lot (plus I would like to understand what is exactly going 
> on there).

I  think  that's not a camlp4 bug, however that's right that an explanation is
needed to make it crystal clear.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai

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