From: Hongbo Zhang <bobzhang1988@gmail.com>
To: Dan Bensen <danbensen@att.net>
Cc: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Syntax extensions without Camlp4
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 10:16:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC62BCA.4030108@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1338385022.96299.YahooMailRC@web180009.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On 5/30/12 9:37 AM, Dan Bensen wrote:
>
> > > I don't think it's good to downplay camlp4.
> > > we need more documentation and more tests.
>
> > (The new) Camlp4 has been here for several years.
> > Documentation and tests are still lagging behind.
>
> Is it possible for Inria or someone else to provide
> funding for that? I would like to help out starting
> sometime in the summer.
>
Actually I am writing a book about the internal part of camlp4 (100~200
pages),
but nobody seems to care about it.
> > the most common uses of camlp4 might be based on a much
> > simpler approach ... Coq is one of the few examples of
> > a big project that relies on other aspects of camlp4
>
> Why not focus on optimizing new lightweight tools for
> small problems and keep camlp4 for big ones? It wouldn't
> be so bad if it were documented better.
I think it's a good idea to build simple tools on top of existing more
powerful tools instead of dropping the latter.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-30 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-27 15:06 [Caml-list] " Alexandre Pilkiewicz
2012-05-27 16:53 ` [Caml-list] " Hongbo Zhang
2012-05-27 18:04 ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-05-27 18:18 ` Hongbo Zhang
2012-05-27 19:01 ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-05-27 22:43 ` Wojciech Meyer
2012-05-28 9:35 ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-05-28 9:59 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-05-30 14:45 ` Hongbo Zhang
2012-05-28 11:17 ` Wojciech Meyer
2012-05-28 15:52 ` Jeffrey Scofield
2012-05-27 18:19 ` Hongbo Zhang
2012-05-28 8:17 ` Paolo Donadeo
2012-05-30 12:41 ` Alain Frisch
2012-05-30 13:18 ` Markus Mottl
2012-05-30 13:37 ` Dan Bensen
2012-05-30 14:16 ` Hongbo Zhang [this message]
2012-05-30 14:23 ` Paolo Donadeo
[not found] ` <20120531081913.GA26742@securactive.lan>
2012-05-31 12:26 ` Paolo Donadeo
2012-05-31 12:38 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2012-05-31 12:40 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2012-05-31 12:46 ` Yaron Minsky
2012-05-31 12:47 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-05-31 22:08 ` Paolo Donadeo
2012-05-30 14:14 ` Hongbo Zhang
2012-05-31 12:59 ` Alain Frisch
2012-05-31 13:21 ` Dmitry Grebeniuk
2012-05-31 14:30 ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-05-31 16:01 ` bob zhang
2012-05-31 17:28 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-05-31 18:03 ` Wojciech Meyer
2012-05-31 18:32 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-05-31 18:32 ` Hongbo Zhang
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