From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2451BC69 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:10:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l5R4AmNW014696 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:10:51 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1I3OrT-0002M3-00; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:10:35 +0100 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:10:35 +0100 To: Raj B Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] C-like macros in OCaml Message-ID: <20070627041034.GA7232@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <1B4EC64C-435D-42C5-95F3-C01869DD41FB@rice.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1B4EC64C-435D-42C5-95F3-C01869DD41FB@rice.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4681E348.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; c-like:01 ocaml:01 c-like:01 ocaml:01 foo:01 ocamlc:01 -pp:01 lib:01 cpp:01 camlp:01 defines:01 iirc:01 26,:98 wrote:01 preprocessor:01 On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:00:40PM -0500, Raj B wrote: > Hi there > > Is there any way I can achieve the use of C-like preprocessor macros > in OCaml? > i.e. > > #define FOO 1 > > etc. What about ocamlc -pp /lib/cpp ? :-) There's also a camlp4 macro preprocessor, but I can't remember now whether it can do constant defines like that (IIRC it used not, but now it can, or something like that). Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat