From: Alain Frisch <Alain.Frisch@inria.fr>
To: Martin Jambon <martin1977@laposte.net>
Cc: "Bünzli Daniel" <daniel.buenzli@epfl.ch>,
"Eric Breck" <ebreck@cs.cornell.edu>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Camlp4 mysteries (was Re: On language extensions (was Re: [Caml-list] global record))
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:38:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C013EC.2080201@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607200311150.19078@munge>
Martin Jambon wrote:
> Otherwise it's possible to define well-disciplined syntax extensions.
> For example, if each new syntax construct (new rule) is forced to start
> with a unique, registered keyword and end with "end", then different
> syntax extensions that follow this rule should play well together.
Except that any new keyword can potentially break existing code. You'd
need some other syntactical convention.
> It would be really nice to have official guidelines on how to develop
> clean syntax extensions, if not automatic enforcement.
Do you have concrete examples of extensions that don't play well together?
-- Alain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-20 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-20 1:12 On language extensions (was Re: [Caml-list] global record) Eric Breck
2006-07-20 5:16 ` skaller
2006-07-20 6:29 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2006-07-20 8:57 ` Jean-Marie Gaillourdet
2006-07-20 12:42 ` Bünzli Daniel
2006-07-20 12:40 ` Camlp4 mysteries (was Re: On language extensions (was Re: [Caml-list] global record)) Martin Jambon
2006-07-20 23:38 ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2006-07-21 0:11 ` Martin Jambon
2006-07-21 0:29 ` skaller
2006-07-21 0:31 ` Martin Jambon
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