From: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
To: David Teller <David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Metaprogramming features
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 15:22:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810041522.55095.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223111038.6931.7.camel@Blefuscu>
On Saturday 04 October 2008 10:03:58 David Teller wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 03:00 +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > 1. Obvious applications are low-level compilers for regular expressions,
> > parsers and bytecodes but MetaOCaml imposes the limitations of OCaml
> > (e.g. slow char and int handling) which makes it unsuitable for most such
> > applications.
>
> Oh, well, you answer some of your own question from your other post. I
> was thinking along the lines of ulex. And I have the impression you can
> get a nice "finally" with MetaOCaml, albeit perhaps with a weird
> syntax.
If you mean "try..finally" then that is a trivial syntax extension. I cannot
see how MetaOCaml would help.
> Now, another obvious application is writing efficient trampoline code
> and other combinators, something which I believe may be very useful for
> concurrency.
Yes.
--
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-04 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-03 14:34 Jacques Carette
2008-10-03 15:09 ` [Caml-list] " Dario Teixeira
2008-10-04 2:00 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04 9:03 ` David Teller
2008-10-04 14:22 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2008-10-06 14:06 ` Brian Hurt
2008-10-06 15:56 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-06 16:46 ` Chung-chieh Shan
2008-10-07 0:17 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-10-07 12:49 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-10-07 15:36 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-07 16:31 ` Jacques Carette
2008-10-03 16:01 ` [Caml-list] " David Teller
2008-10-03 21:14 ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-10-04 2:17 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04 9:10 ` David Teller
2008-10-04 0:49 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-10-04 2:03 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04 8:23 ` Richard Jones
2008-10-04 14:31 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04 13:57 ` Richard Jones
2008-10-04 19:41 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04 19:04 ` Richard Jones
2008-10-05 1:05 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-06 16:54 ` Chung-chieh Shan
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