From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BDE3BC8E for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:04:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1I84VBH003562 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:04:31 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA26786 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:04:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from alex.barettalocal.com (h213-255-109-130.albacom.net [213.255.109.130] (may be forged)) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1I84UIl003558 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:04:31 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alex.barettalocal.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F7C32BAA5F for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:04:29 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4215A18C.7040603@barettadeit.com> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:04:28 +0100 From: Alex Baretta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1 X-Accept-Language: it, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Camlp4 documentation References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4215A18F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4215A18E.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; baretta:01 caml-list:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 syntax:01 ocaml:01 syntax:01 imho:01 baretta:01 jambon:02 revised:02 alex:03 alex:03 terribly:03 370:96 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: Martin Jambon wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Christian Szegedy wrote: > > >>Feel free to write your CamlP4 extension ;) > > > :-) > But there are few things to know/discover before starting. > > Is anyone interested in a kind of highly practical tutorial on > how to extend the syntax of OCaml with Camlp4? > I could possibly start writing one if there is enough demand. > > > Martin > Why yes! Yet, it's terribly sad that DdR chose to forcibly impose upon the Camlp4 metaprogrammer to use the revised syntax. This is probably the main obstacle, together with the relative lack of documentation, to the diffusion of Camlp4, IMHO. Alex -- ********************************************************************* http://www.barettadeit.com/ Baretta DE&IT A division of Baretta SRL tel. +39 02 370 111 55 fax. +39 02 370 111 54 Our technology: The Application System/Xcaml (AS/Xcaml) The FreerP Project