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From: Julien Moutinho <julien.moutinho@gmail.com>
To: Gabriel Kerneis <gabriel.kerneis@enst.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [Camlp4][trivial ?] Anonymous bind (for monads)
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:50:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070731175015.GA10482@jiyu.gnu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IFv09-00041N-5v@kerneis.info>

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:55:05PM +0200, Gabriel Kerneis wrote:
>  EXTEND Gram
>  expr: LEVEL "top"
>    [[ t=expr; "foo"; f=expr ->
>         <:expr<
>             Lwt.bind $t$ (fun () -> $f$)
>         >>]];
>  END
> end
> [...]
> But if I change "foo" to ">>" (which is the usual way to write an
> anonymous bind for monads), it doesn't work anymore. I first thought the
> reason was that ">>" is also the symbol for closing a quotation, but
> trying "++" instead proved useless as well.
> 
> I'm certainly not a camlp4 guru so... what am I missing?

My guess is that the first [t=expr] swallows the ">>".
You can try "->" or "|" against which [expr] does not match,
but I think it is not advisable to use them in a bigger program.

However, I'm sure that Mr.Pouillard will be happy to enlight us on how to use ">>".

HTH a little.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-31 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-31 16:55 Gabriel Kerneis
2007-07-31 17:02 ` [Caml-list] " Gabriel Kerneis
2007-07-31 17:50 ` Julien Moutinho [this message]
2007-08-09 18:29 ` Nicolas Pouillard

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