Re: [Caml-list] Threats on future of Camlp4

[Daniel de Rauglaudre <daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr>]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 04:28:43PM -0400, Dave Mason wrote:

> I don't know who decided that camlp4 was the way to do that, but
> somebody did, and so I hope that at least that much of camlp4 comes as
> part of the ocaml distribution.

I did. Actually, the streams are just syntactic sugar, and their place
is in a preprocessor. In the very first version of OCaml, there were
no streams. I had added them, because there were not Camlp4 at this
time.

The problem of the streams inside OCaml is that the generated code
is very inefficient. To be more efficient, one has to optimize the
code (the generated source code), and it is very easy to do with
Camlp4 (thanks to the quotations) and very hard in OCaml (no
quotation and, moreover, a syntax tree too complicated).

> It may meet your (Daniel's) personal wishes that camlp4 be separated
> from ocaml, but I think that for the rest of us, it is better that it
> be shipped with ocaml.

For me it is better also. But I cannot work under a system whose
director considers my work as a "waste of time". Sorry. Or explain
him to stop telling that!

-- 
Daniel de RAUGLAUDRE
daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr
http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/
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