From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA22495; Tue, 21 May 2002 19:10:37 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA22516 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 19:10:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wetware.wetware.com (wetware.wetware.com [199.108.16.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g4LHAZX18408 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 19:10:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from (local broken client) localhost(dh08.wetware.com[199.108.16.48]) (1451 bytes) by wetware.wetware.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 10:10:34 -0700 (PDT) (Smail-3.2.0.114 2001-Aug-6 #1 built 2002-Jan-4) Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:10:35 -0700 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Camlp4/OCaml [was: Generating C stubs] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) From: james woodyatt To: (The Trade)caml-list@inria.fr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20020519113129.GA17044@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 "The plainest print cannot be read through a solid gold sovereign, or a ruble, or a golden eagle." --sam cummings, famous arms dealer ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners