From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA12103; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:24:12 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA12072 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:24:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from cantina.students.cs.unibo.it (cantina.students.cs.unibo.it [130.136.3.110]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g15HOB920129 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:24:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from lordsoth.takhisis.org ([130.136.32.178]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by cantina.students.cs.unibo.it (8.12.0.Beta19/8.12.0.Beta19/Debian 8.12.0.Beta19) with ESMTP id g15HO8s5008659 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=192 verify=FAIL) for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:24:10 +0100 Received: from lordsoth.takhisis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lordsoth.takhisis.org (8.12.0/8.12.0/Debian -3) with ESMTP id g15HNtOs005487 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=FAIL) for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:23:56 +0100 Received: (from zack@localhost) by lordsoth.takhisis.org (8.12.0/8.12.0/Debian -3) id g15HNteP005485 for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:23:55 +0100 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:23:54 +0100 From: Stefano Zacchiroli To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] syntax change (was: camlp4o problem) Message-ID: <20020205172354.GA4699@cs.unibo.it> Mail-Followup-To: caml-list@inria.fr References: <20020204201140.GA1705@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> <20020205103304.GA25187@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> <87u1swdu0s.dlv@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87u1swdu0s.dlv@wanadoo.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:53:39PM +0100, Remi VANICAT wrote: > > nobody else was using it. If you want to make your code available to > > other people, you'll have to take social aspects of programming into > > consideration, too. > > may be. But camlp4 is written in revised syntax, and there are a lot > of people using it (at least I believe). So the fact that a library or a > tool is written in revised or standard library doesn't change anything > for those who use it. The only problem is for those who want to change I think that Markus was talking about _code_ and not about the resulting (compiled) library or tool. Obviously the target obtained is syntax independent, but for who wants to have a look at the code the syntax is relevant. Cheers. -- Stefano "Zack" Zacchiroli ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate student of Computer Science @ University of Bologna, Italy - Information wants to be Open - ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr