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 MAA31474; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:30:29 +0200 (MET DST) 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 MAA29257 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:30:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from web11206.mail.yahoo.com (web11206.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.188]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g9OAURD07793 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:30:27 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <20021024103026.5591.qmail@web11206.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [195.224.189.78] by web11206.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 03:30:26 PDT Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 03:30:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Noel Welsh Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Again on pattern matching and strings To: Stefano Zacchiroli Cc: caml-list In-Reply-To: <20021024095045.GB11324@cs.unibo.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk --- Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > What about "DEFINE" / "UNDEF"? > > The first is more C-like and macro substitution is > really a C-like construct. Macros by textual substitution is a C concept. Macros by expression substitution come from Lisp; hence the defmacro. Lisp macros have a long and glorious history and are still an active research topic. A recent paper (presented scarcely 4 weeks ago) is http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/macromod.pdf It should provide enought references for the interested scholar to assess the current state of the art. Noel __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners