From: Boris Yakobowski <ml@yakobowski.org>
To: nicolas.ojeda.bar@lexifi.com
Cc: The Caml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Deprecating -annot
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 10:52:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABbVA-AgTi0dDQ9M=_Meub0CN=8mCvR825LBDVnG4ugeS3+H=g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADK7aFNbjuHdy5vJMR+qutuS_pfoEpuD+QvPk_BMXn+2GtXAVg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi,
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:16 AM Nicolás Ojeda Bär <
nicolas.ojeda.bar@lexifi.com> wrote:
> The main reason for the deprecation is that it is superseded by
> .cmt-based infrastructure (as exploited by e.g. merlin, ocp-index,
> etc).
>
I was thinking about the good old .annot days (finally, type information in
emacs!), as well as of the not-so-good-ones (generation of the .annot file
that took longer than the compilation of the file). By large, .cmt files
have been a improvement in my experience.
That being said, there is one use of .annot files that I have not been able
to port to .cmt files: finding (unsafe) uses of Pervasives.compare or
Pervasives.equal in a codebase. My workflow is as follow:
- generate the .annot files
- grep for Pervasives.( = ) or Pervasives.compare with sufficient context
- dismiss all calls that occur on a basic type (typically scalars)
- check all remaining calls for an use on an abstract or possible-cyclic
type
Clearly this process is not exactly efficient, and would be much better
handled by a compiler warning -- especially since the compiler would be
able to notice type equalities such as t = int coming from the context. So
this message must not be understood as a real suggestion to keep .annot
file in the end :)
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2018-11-08 9:16 Nicolás Ojeda Bär
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