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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: "Petter A. Urkedal" <paurkedal@gmail.com>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Terser ppx syntax for common usage (like monads)
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 15:09:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F139F045CACC49BB99932C6BFF5C389F@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALa9pHQAfTjbQ-adr29QYoEtT=zgEywa9+btSuWRFc==w-giHQ@mail.gmail.com>

> Now, that's not necessarily a bad thing, but the monad bind operation
> tends to be quite invasive, so I'd like to suggest adding a shorter
> syntax which the user could choose to map to their most pervasive ppx
> rewriter.

This entails that I can't possibly have an idea of what the code is doing without looking up what the build system is doing which is annoying. We should aim for self-describing sources rather than put too much knowledge in the build systems — which also means that usage of pre-processors should be frown upon in general.

Daniel



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-10 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-10 13:48 Petter A. Urkedal
2015-10-10 13:57 ` Petter A. Urkedal
2015-10-10 14:09 ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2015-10-10 17:32   ` Petter A. Urkedal

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