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From: =?utf-8?Q?Daniel_B=C3=BCnzli?= <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] proposal for finding, loading and composing ppx
 preprocessors

Le vendredi, 11 juillet 2014 =C3=A0 14:31, Benjamin Canou a =C3=A9crit :
> Again, the goal is to agree now on a standard way and avoid the mess we
> had with camlp4.=20=20

Rather than *avoid* I'd rather say *improve* over the mess=E2=80=A6

> What do you think ?
If I understand correctly this is a ppx for selectively using ppxs over a f=
ile. Bonus points for the higher-order ppx.=20=20

Since apparently we have to deal with this crap until we actually get somet=
hing decent for static meta programming in this language, wouldn't it be ea=
sier to just define a standard annotation as you suggest, and then have som=
e kind of "ppxdep" tool that just spits you the flags you will have to put =
on the command line in order to be able to compile it ?=20=20

I think I'd rather see explicitly and statically what crap extension is bei=
ng pulled by the sources I'm trying to compile rather than being hidden fro=
m all that by that
meta ppx extension.

Daniel

P.S. What happens if I do [@@@ syntax "ppx_loader"] ?=20=20