2010/5/20 Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>

On 05/20/2010 11:41 AM, Julien Signoles wrote:

I think that'll have to be someone else than me, as I consider myself
just a beginner in OCaml.
However if you think that implementing AST transforms would be possible
for a beginner (in OCaml, I do have experience with compilers), I'm
willing to give it a try.

I wrote ocamldefun during my master project where I done both the theory and the implementation of this tool: I was a beginner both in ocaml and in functional programming since I only wrote a mini-compiler in ocaml during my studies without any lecture on functional programming. But ok: there were ocaml experts in my research team which provide me some wonderful helps :-).

I think that if there is a defunctorizer written it should live in the
OCaml distribution itself (maybe in contrib/).

Ocaml is not Coq: there is no such "contrib/" directory ;-). As far as I know, the Ocaml development team does not accept so much external contributions (for many good reasons).

I certainly don't intend to write an external tool that uses OCaml
internal modules.

That is what ocamldefun actually does.

Best regards,
Julien