From: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>
To: Daniel de Rauglaudre <daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: status of some big "important" features?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 17:58:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20001230175604.00b9c2c0@shell16.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001230215303.A2040@verdot.inria.fr>
>Camlp4 does not know what a type definition is: for it, it is just a
>syntax thing. Therefore, in the line "print_member_camlp4 a", Camlp4
>does not know what "a" is: for it, it is just "the identifier a",
>that's all. The fact that it is a variable previously defined of type
>"foo" is typing. If you want to treat that at Camlp4 time, you have to
>write a types inference algorithm. A compiler...
Ah, I see. How hard would it be to hook camlp4 (or another "plugin" type thing, but it would be good if it was the same structure as camlp4) into other stages of the compiler, like after type inference?
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-02 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-26 23:47 Chris Hecker
2000-12-28 9:10 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2000-12-30 19:30 ` Chris Hecker
2000-12-30 20:53 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2000-12-31 1:58 ` Chris Hecker [this message]
2000-12-31 3:08 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-01-02 17:39 ` William Chesters
2000-12-31 20:39 ` John Max Skaller
2000-12-28 20:19 ` A proposal for overloading Christophe Raffalli
2001-01-02 10:38 ` Didier Remy
2001-01-02 19:08 ` Christophe Raffalli
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