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From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
To: Nicolas Cannasse <warplayer@free.fr>
Cc: Michal Moskal <malekith@pld-linux.org>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Alternative Bytecodes for OCaml
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:40:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040830164022.GA1260@complete.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008501c48c77$27ffaa00$0100a8c0@warp>

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:48:06PM +0200, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
> That was part of my thinking. A lot of technologies that are available in
> the OCaml compiler sources are not made accessible to the OCaml programmer.
> I would like for instance be able to create on the fly Lambda OCaml AST,
> generate corresponding ocaml bytecode, and execute it : such a feature would
> be great for DSL since it will remove the need to implement an efficient
> runtime system (ocaml one will be used in place).

Just one example of this: AFAIK, there is no way, using camlp4 or any
other standard tools, to implement a custom version of printf complete
with a custom format string parser.

-- 
John Goerzen
Author, Foundations of Python Network Programming
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593715

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-30 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-25 14:26 John Goerzen
2004-08-25 14:38 ` Richard Jones
2004-08-25 14:50   ` John Goerzen
2004-08-25 15:02     ` John Goerzen
2004-08-26  9:05       ` Raphael Montelatici
2004-08-26 13:20         ` John Goerzen
2004-08-26 13:30           ` John Goerzen
2004-08-25 14:55   ` Lars Nilsson
2004-08-25 15:06     ` Jason Smith
2004-08-25 16:14       ` John Goerzen
2004-08-28  3:49     ` John Goerzen
2004-08-25 15:05 ` skaller
2004-08-25 15:21   ` Lars Nilsson
2004-08-25 15:22   ` Jason Smith
2004-08-25 15:52     ` John Goerzen
2004-08-25 16:26       ` Jason Smith
2004-08-25 16:40         ` Jason Smith
2004-08-25 16:49       ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2004-08-25 17:01         ` Jason Smith
2004-08-25 17:17         ` John Goerzen
2004-08-25 20:00       ` skaller
2004-08-25 15:23   ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-25 15:24     ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-08-27 14:26     ` Daniel Ortmann
2004-08-27 14:44       ` skaller
2004-08-27 14:59       ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-25 15:35   ` John Goerzen
2004-08-25 16:00   ` Richard Jones
2004-08-25 15:40 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-08-27 17:55   ` John Goerzen
2004-08-27 18:37     ` skaller
2004-08-27 18:49       ` John Goerzen
2004-08-27 20:39         ` skaller
2004-08-27 20:56           ` John Goerzen
2004-08-27 22:05             ` Richard Jones
2004-08-27 23:15               ` John Goerzen
2004-08-31 11:10                 ` Keith Wansbrough
2004-08-28  0:25             ` skaller
2004-08-28  9:35               ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-08-28  9:50                 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-08-28 10:41                   ` skaller
2004-08-28 11:37                     ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-08-25 17:37 ` Basile Starynkevitch [local]
2004-08-25 18:00   ` Richard Jones
2004-08-25 22:10 ` Yamagata Yoriyuki
2004-08-26  0:09   ` John Goerzen
2004-08-26  4:26     ` [Caml-list] bytecode and native code at once Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-26  9:55       ` skaller
2004-08-26 15:52         ` [Caml-list] " mikel
2004-08-26 17:09           ` Paul Snively
2004-08-26 17:31             ` mikel evins
2004-08-26 18:04               ` Paul Snively
2004-08-26 18:28                 ` mikel evins
2004-08-26 21:15             ` skaller
2004-08-27  8:52           ` Keith Wansbrough
2004-08-27 15:39             ` David Brown
2004-08-27 15:48               ` mikel evins
2004-08-26 21:42     ` [Caml-list] Alternative Bytecodes for OCaml Michal Moskal
2004-08-27  9:38       ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-08-27 13:09         ` John Goerzen
2004-08-27 13:44           ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-27 13:58           ` skaller
2004-08-27 20:48           ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-08-27 21:03             ` Benjamin Geer
2004-08-30 16:40             ` John Goerzen [this message]
2004-08-27 19:49         ` Blair Zajac
2004-08-27 22:18           ` Richard Jones
2004-08-27 23:38             ` Yamagata Yoriyuki
2004-08-28 16:40               ` Basile Starynkevitch [local]
2004-08-28 17:03                 ` [Caml-list] (GC issues) " Nicolas Cannasse
2004-08-28 20:45                   ` [Caml-list] " Basile Starynkevitch [local]
2004-08-29  2:31                     ` skaller
2004-08-29  5:04                       ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-29 12:58                         ` John Goerzen
2004-08-29 15:06                           ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-29 15:22                             ` Radu-Mihail Obada
2004-08-29 10:12                     ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-08-30 12:23                       ` Basile Starynkevitch [local]
2004-08-30 13:17                         ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-08-26 16:04 ` [Caml-list] " =?unknown-8bit?Q?=A3ukasz?= Dobrek

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