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 mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 183CCBBC1 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:09:33 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsYAABBbEEjUnw7XcGdsb2JhbACCMI8kAQwFAgQHE5su X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,704,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="25456304" Received: from fhw-relay07.plus.net ([212.159.14.215]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 24 Apr 2008 19:09:03 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by fhw-relay07.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Jp4wP-0002VX-CA for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:09:01 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] Standard syntax extensions ? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:02:18 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <1209052182.6180.35.camel@Blefuscu> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804241802.19074.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 3b490b3ee69bff637e3101859e6a3c0f X-Spam: no; 0.00; syntax:01 syntax:01 unneeded:01 dependencies:01 compiler:01 camlp:01 frog:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 macros:01 jambon:01 thu:05 apr:06 standard:07 On Thursday 24 April 2008 17:41:17 Martin Jambon wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, David Teller wrote: > > * which syntax extensions do you use so often that you consider they > > should be part of the language ? > > None because it creates unneeded dependencies between unrelated > libraries. Agreed. There are some glaring omissions, like try..finally, but they should be fixed properly in the compiler and not using camlp macros. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e