From: Alex Cowie <cowie@cs.unisa.edu.au>
To: Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Camlp4 documentation
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:24:14 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4215AD36.1070303@cs.unisa.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4215A18C.7040603@barettadeit.com>
Alex Baretta wrote:
> 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
>
For me, the use of revised syntax has been a disincentive to using
Camlp4 metaprogramming. I have always wondered whether a traditional
syntax version of Camlp4 was technically feasible. Any comments?
Alex Cowie
--
School of Computer and Information Science
University of South Australia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-18 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-17 15:32 Immediate recursive functions Alex Baretta
2005-02-17 18:20 ` [Caml-list] " Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-02-17 19:00 ` Jason Hickey
2005-02-17 20:33 ` Alex Baretta
2005-02-17 19:18 ` Christian Szegedy
2005-02-17 20:36 ` Alex Baretta
2005-02-17 22:39 ` Camlp4 documentation (was: Immediate recursive functions) Martin Jambon
2005-02-17 23:30 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2005-02-17 23:51 ` Michael Walter
2005-02-18 0:51 ` Micha
2005-02-18 3:37 ` briand
2005-02-18 5:21 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-18 6:51 ` Johann Spies
2005-02-18 8:04 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4 documentation Alex Baretta
2005-02-18 8:54 ` Alex Cowie [this message]
2005-02-18 16:20 ` Camlp4 with traditional syntax (was: Camlp4 documentation) Hendrik Tews
2005-02-18 16:28 ` [Caml-list] " Alex Baretta
2005-02-18 22:36 ` Hendrik Tews
2005-02-21 12:28 ` Alex Baretta
2005-02-21 12:55 ` Bardur Arantsson
2005-02-21 15:22 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4 with traditional syntax Olivier Andrieu
2005-02-21 16:57 ` Bardur Arantsson
2005-02-18 18:43 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4 with traditional syntax (was: Camlp4 documentation) Martin Jambon
2005-02-18 22:41 ` Hendrik Tews
2005-02-22 10:29 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-22 23:32 ` Richard Jones
2005-02-23 0:01 ` Martin Jambon
2005-02-24 0:47 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-24 15:24 ` William D. Neumann
2005-02-18 8:14 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4 documentation (was: Immediate recursive functions) Robert M. Solovay
2009-05-23 12:24 Camlp4 documentation Jon Harrop
2009-05-23 13:13 ` Re : [Caml-list] " Matthieu Wipliez
2009-05-23 17:37 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2009-05-23 19:22 ` Jon Harrop
2009-05-23 19:55 ` Christophe TROESTLER
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