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From: William Chesters <williamc@paneris.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: status of some big "important" features?
Date: Tue,  2 Jan 2001 18:39:55 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14930.4452.271488.519939@beertje.william.bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001231040811.G2272@verdot.inria.fr>

Daniel de Rauglaudre writes:
 > Camlp4 allows to make syntax extensions. We could imagine something to
 > make typing extensions and code generating extensions. But I don't
 > know how to do that, and even if it is possible in a simple way.
 > 
 > Do other caml-list readers have an opinion about that?

The actual source code for the compiler as it is now is pretty decent, 
remarkably so given its maturity, and it's hard to imagine any useful
"semantic extension" mechanism being much simpler than just hacking the
relevant bits of camlc.

My 2p,
W



  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-03 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-26 23:47 Chris Hecker
2000-12-28  9:10 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2000-12-30 19:30   ` Chris Hecker
2000-12-30 20:53     ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2000-12-31  1:58       ` Chris Hecker
2000-12-31  3:08         ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-01-02 17:39           ` William Chesters [this message]
2000-12-31 20:39   ` John Max Skaller
2000-12-28 20:19 ` A proposal for overloading Christophe Raffalli
2001-01-02 10:38   ` Didier Remy
2001-01-02 19:08     ` Christophe Raffalli

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