From: Jake Donham <jake@donham.org>
To: ben kuin <benkuin@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] what do I need to know to understand camlp4
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:54:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimD1TqX1vnwnr72u7=BMrJh7iy6WEAZRVtbBRJ+@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinDB4h-=95GV7cM48cR10Ydcvgzty9gVU=nXjD_@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:49 AM, ben kuin <benkuin@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks Jake, after browsing through those articles I came to the
> conclusion that for understanding and using camlp4 the notion of
> quotations and antiquotations is fundamental. My absolute lack of
> knowledge in this area might be a reason why I can't figure out how
> camlp4 works.
Unfortunately quotations are a rather leaky abstraction. You need to
understand what is happening at the AST level to do anything
complicated, and to understand what's wrong when you get an error.
Anything you can do with quotations you can of course do directly with
the AST, since quotations are just syntactic sugar for the AST. But to
make the code readable quotations are essential.
Jake
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-23 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-23 14:56 ben kuin
2010-09-23 15:21 ` [Caml-list] " David MENTRE
2010-09-23 19:50 ` ben kuin
2010-09-24 0:15 ` Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva
2010-09-24 7:35 ` David House
2010-09-27 11:43 ` Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva
2010-09-24 7:48 ` David MENTRE
2010-09-23 15:25 ` bluestorm
2010-09-23 16:23 ` Jake Donham
2010-09-23 18:49 ` ben kuin
2010-09-23 18:54 ` Jake Donham [this message]
2010-09-23 19:06 ` Yoann Padioleau
2010-09-23 16:28 ` Michael Ekstrand
2010-09-23 16:35 ` Sylvain Le Gall
[not found] ` <1285259219.1820.15.camel@knine>
2010-09-23 18:43 ` [Caml-list] " ben kuin
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