From: james woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>
To: (The Trade)caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Camlp4/OCaml [was: Generating C stubs]
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:10:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AA318CF6-6CDD-11D6-944A-000502DB38F5@wetware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020519113129.GA17044@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at>
On Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 04:31 AM, Markus Mottl wrote:
> [...]
> What I consider at least as important is how to introduce syntactic
> changes into a language without driving users mad. This gets us back
> to the topic of having camlp4 in the distribution or not. I think that
> irrespective of the syntactic rules the community can finally agree on,
> a tool like camlp4 would be very welcome to support a transition.
I'd like to go on record as agreeing with what Markus wrote about syntax
issues in Ocaml in the message excerpted above. In addition, the
paragraph I chose to quote represents an opinion that I, too, hold quite
strongly.
--
j h woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>
"The plainest print cannot be read through a solid gold sovereign,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-21 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-15 9:13 [Caml-list] Generating C stubs Jérôme Marant
2002-05-15 9:49 ` Jocelyn Sérot
2002-05-15 12:17 ` Jérôme Marant
2002-05-15 12:38 ` Remi VANICAT
2002-05-15 20:19 ` Jérôme Marant
2002-05-16 7:06 ` Florian Hars
2002-05-16 7:34 ` Markus Mottl
2002-05-16 19:13 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4/OCaml [was: Generating C stubs] Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-05-16 19:27 ` Chris Hecker
2002-05-16 19:39 ` John Prevost
2002-05-16 19:44 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-05-16 20:28 ` Chris Hecker
2002-05-16 21:38 ` Markus Mottl
2002-05-17 0:31 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-05-17 14:32 ` Pierre Weis
2002-05-17 15:31 ` Markus Mottl
2002-05-17 21:18 ` Pierre Weis
2002-05-17 21:37 ` Dave Mason
2002-05-18 9:46 ` Pierre Weis
2002-05-21 17:51 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2002-05-19 11:31 ` Markus Mottl
2002-05-21 17:10 ` james woodyatt [this message]
2002-05-20 1:18 ` [Caml-list] Tail recursion detection John Max Skaller
2002-05-21 7:46 ` Alain Frisch
2002-05-21 11:35 ` Benedikt Grundmann
2002-05-21 15:12 ` John Max Skaller
2002-05-22 12:44 ` Noel Welsh
2002-05-22 16:47 ` John Max Skaller
2002-05-21 8:57 ` Noel Welsh
2002-05-20 22:59 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4/OCaml [was: Generating C stubs] Alessandro Baretta
2002-05-16 23:22 ` [Caml-list] Re: Camlp4/OCaml Christopher Quinn
2002-05-17 7:02 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
[not found] ` <Pine.BSF.4.40.0205170357340.11758-100000@bpr.best.vwh.net>
2002-05-17 7:09 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4/OCaml [was: Generating C stubs] Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-05-17 7:54 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4/OCaml Michel Mauny
2002-05-17 8:05 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-05-16 14:09 ` [Caml-list] Generating C stubs Benedikt Grundmann
2002-05-16 16:37 ` Jeff Henrikson
2002-05-16 16:31 ` Benedikt Grundmann
2002-05-17 5:59 ` Jeff Henrikson
2002-05-16 23:22 [Caml-list] Camlp4/OCaml [was: Generating C stubs] Joshua D. Guttman
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