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From: Hongbo Zhang <bobzhang1988@gmail.com>
To: Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>
Cc: oleg@okmij.org, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Call for collaboration on the future of camlp4
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:13:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <505DB983.6070902@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505DB4B7.5030309@mcmaster.ca>

On 9/22/12 8:53 AM, Jacques Carette wrote:
> I emphatically agree with Oleg.  I'll reinforce on point regarding the 
> competition:
>
> On 22/09/2012 3:50 AM, oleg@okmij.org wrote:
>>   [...] there is a definite push towards MetaOCaml-like type safety
>> for expressions.
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/Template%20Haskell%20Proposal
>>
>> see especially
>>    Part B: Add new MetaML-style constructs for strongly-typed 
>> metaprogramming.
>
> This is being implemented NOW.  Simon Peyton Jones is doing the ghc 
> work, and I am porting the metaocaml codes I have to serve as test 
> cases.  Simon announced that this 'typed quotes and splices' will be 
> in GHC 7.8 at the Haskell Workshop.
>
> Jacques
Yes, I agree that it would much nicer we have such facility in ocaml, no 
competition..

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-22 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-20  9:36 [Caml-list] " oleg
2012-09-20 12:16 ` [Caml-list] " Hongbo Zhang
2012-09-22  7:50   ` oleg
2012-09-22 12:02     ` Hongbo Zhang
2012-09-22 12:53     ` Jacques Carette
2012-09-22 13:13       ` Hongbo Zhang [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-09-18 19:11 [Caml-list] " bob zhang
2012-09-19 19:55 ` Wojciech Meyer
2012-09-19 21:21   ` [Caml-list] " Hongbo Zhang
2012-09-19 21:35     ` Hongbo Zhang
2012-09-30 17:02 ` bobzhang

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