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 PAA05731; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:59:01 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA05639 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:59:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from verdot.inria.fr (verdot.inria.fr [128.93.11.7]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g16Ex0n06560 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:59:00 +0100 (MET) Received: (from ddr@localhost) by verdot.inria.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA14207 for caml-list@inria.fr; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:59:00 +0100 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:59:00 +0100 From: Daniel de Rauglaudre To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Camlp4 "vs" JSE Message-ID: <20020206155900.J31521@verdot.inria.fr> References: <8E31D6933A2FE64F8AE3CC1381EEDCE7232D99@NT.kal.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <8E31D6933A2FE64F8AE3CC1381EEDCE7232D99@NT.kal.com>; from Dave@kal.com on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:37:00PM -0000 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi, On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:37:00PM -0000, Dave Berry wrote: > Two ex-colleagues of mine published a paper in last year's OOPSLA about > a macro system for Java. In their paper they briefly mention Camlp4 in > the "related work" section. They say that because Camlp4 is > grammar-based, it can't guarantee parseability. Is this true, or did > they not understand Camlp4 properly? Yes, Camlp4 works with syntax trees, not with text. -- Daniel de RAUGLAUDRE daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/ ------------------- 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