From: Christian Lindig <lindig@cs.uni-sb.de>
To: Tom Hawkins <tom@confluent.org>
Cc: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Tools module for the Standard Lib
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 11:36:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A4A66F80-4772-11D9-A281-000A95CB833C@cs.uni-sb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41B34705.4000207@confluent.org>
On Dec 5, 2004, at 6:36 PM, Tom Hawkins wrote:
> Extrapolating on this idea, it would be advantageous to have a "Tools"
> module [..] Such a module would provide first-class ADTs for data that
> is currently represented in files: .ml, .mli, .mll, .cmi, .cmx, etc.
> For example:
>
> let my_ml = Tools.ml_of_file "my.ml" in (* or ... *)
> let gen_ml = Tools.ml_of_string "print_string \"hello!\"" in
>
> With such a framework, the complexity of the build process is
> encapsulated in a program.
In my experience, all serious projects have to deal with more than one
kind of source language: besides OCaml there could be TeX for
documentation, Troff for manual pages, input for special-purpose code
generators like Burg, and so on. A build system must be able to deal
with all of them. Therefore your proposal would not eliminate the need
for a general build tool outside of OCaml,
-- Christian
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2004-12-05 17:36 Tom Hawkins
2004-12-05 20:23 ` [Caml-list] " Kenneth Knowles
2004-12-06 10:36 ` Christian Lindig [this message]
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