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From: Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>
To: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pouillard <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>,
	caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Metaprogramming features
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:31:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EB8EC5.30304@mcmaster.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810071636.43288.jon@ffconsultancy.com>

Jon Harrop wrote:
> So the translation from MetaOCaml to OCaml is not obvious at all.
>
> This begs the question: could another formulation of MetaOCaml avoid these 
> complications without losing expressiveness?
>   
No.  See some of the early papers of Taha and papers from Sheard around 
the same time. 

BTW, F#'s metaprogramming features are much much less powerful than 
metaocaml's.  We tried to use them to generalize some previous work I 
(with some other colleagues) had done in metaocaml, but couldn't.  
Essentially, F#'s splices are first-order only.

Jacques


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-07 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-03 14:34 Jacques Carette
2008-10-03 15:09 ` [Caml-list] " Dario Teixeira
2008-10-04  2:00   ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04  9:03     ` David Teller
2008-10-04 14:22       ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-06 14:06     ` Brian Hurt
2008-10-06 15:56       ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-06 16:46         ` Chung-chieh Shan
2008-10-07  0:17           ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-10-07 12:49             ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-10-07 15:36               ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-07 16:31                 ` Jacques Carette [this message]
2008-10-03 16:01 ` [Caml-list] " David Teller
2008-10-03 21:14   ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-10-04  2:17   ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04  9:10     ` David Teller
2008-10-04  0:49 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-10-04  2:03   ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04  8:23     ` Richard Jones
2008-10-04 14:31       ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04 13:57         ` Richard Jones
2008-10-04 19:41           ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04 19:04             ` Richard Jones
2008-10-05  1:05               ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-06 16:54               ` Chung-chieh Shan

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