Re: [Caml-list] Strange camlp4 issue

[Jeremy Yallop <yallop@gmail.com>]

Dear Philippe,

On 1 October 2012 17:21, Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com> wrote:
>                     let _ = (a7818b19c#compound : Rbase.compound 'abdf89974)

This appears to be the line where things are going wrong.
Rbase.compound 'abdf89974 is not a valid type in original (i.e.
standard) OCaml syntax, but is valid in the revised syntax.  It may be
that you're using the wrong camlp4 executable somewhere along the
line: for example, using quotations for revised syntax in your
extension, but building the extension using an original-syntax based
executable such as camlp4o.  There's a handy guide to the various
camlp4 executables on the wiki:

http://brion.inria.fr/gallium/index.php/Using_Camlp4#Camlp4_executables_functionalities

You're seeing different error-reporting behaviour depending on whether
you redirect the file because camlp4 checks whether it's printing to a
terminal when deciding whether to print textual or binary output by
default:

http://caml.inria.fr/svn/ocaml/trunk/camlp4/Camlp4Printers/Camlp4AutoPrinter.ml

Hope that helps a bit,

Jeremy.