From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id AAA25480; Fri, 17 May 2002 00:27:32 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA25458 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 00:27:32 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from athlon.baretta.com (r-mi214-6a152.tin.it [62.211.4.152]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g4GMRU121770 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 00:27:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45522728C for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 02:31:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3CE44F7A.6040509@baretta.com> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 02:31:54 +0200 From: Alessandro Baretta Organization: Baretta srl -- www.baretta.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Camlp4/OCaml [was: Generating C stubs] References: <20020515111328.A13106@fr.thalesgroup.com> <193C71C6-67E9-11D6-BB25-0003934491C2@lasmea.univ-bpclermont.fr> <20020515141716.A19272@fr.thalesgroup.com> <20020516070628.GA2334@bik-gmbh.de> <20020516073406.GA1614@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> <20020516211342.A2924@verdot.inria.fr> <86ptzvrif2.fsf@laurelin.dementia.org> <20020516214412.K2924@verdot.inria.fr> <20020516213841.GA4921@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Markus Mottl wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2002, Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote: > >>On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:39:45PM -0400, John Prevost wrote: >> >>>Really? Why did someone decide that inclusion was a bad idea? >> >>I say it. Camlp4 and the attempts to improve the syntax have been >>considered *officially* by the OCaml team as a "not serious" work >>and a "loss of time". As I worried about that, and asked for more >>information, it has been confirmed by the team, moreover with several >>personnal attacks. > FAIW, let me say I'm shedding blood to make my code compile when I raise exceptions that have non banal type lists: I always misplace my parentheses. I never realized there was an alternative syntax provided by CamlP4, but I'm pretty sure this must be the solution to my crux. Should this be the case, I would find it considerably inconveniencing if camlp4 should be removed from the distribution. Alex Baretta ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners