From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6BE167F7AF for ; Sat, 10 Oct 2015 16:09:15 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-PHdr: 9a23:D6fwbxed02qpRRyo+mdLjt3QlGMj4u6mDksu8pMizoh2WeGdxc6zZB7h7PlgxGXEQZ/co6odzbGG7+a/CCdesN6oizMrTt9lb1c9k8IYnggtUoauKHbQC7rUVRE8B9lIT1R//nu2YgB/Ecf6YEDO8DXptWZBUiv2OQc9HOnpAIma153xjLDuvcKCKFsZzBOGIppMbzyO5T3LsccXhYYwYo0Q8TDu5kVyRuJN2GlzLkiSlRuvru25/Zpk7jgC86l5r50IeezAcq85Vb1VCig9eyBwvZWz9EqLcQzarEMRTnkbiFJhRUD49hL3Up71+GOuruNgwiqXMcTyZb8xUDWmqaxsTUm7pj0AMmsV+WfWh8hHpjZdshag70hzyojVbYXTPudzeLHZfPsXX3BIQsdISiEHCYPqPNhHNPYIIesN99q1nFAJtxbrQFD0XO4= Authentication-Results: mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; spf=None smtp.pra=daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch; spf=None smtp.mailfrom=daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch; spf=None smtp.helo=postmaster@smtp.webfaction.com Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch) identity=pra; client-ip=74.55.86.74; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-sender="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=74.55.86.74; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-sender="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@smtp.webfaction.com) identity=helo; client-ip=74.55.86.74; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch"; x-sender="postmaster@smtp.webfaction.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0DbAQBHGxlWnEpWN0pewl+BWoMTggp/AoFaEgEBAQEBAQEBEAEBAQEBCAsJCSEugh+CCAEBAwEjVgULCxoCJgICRxAGG4geCASvYJN+AQEIAQEBAQEdgSKKT4RaMweCaTGBFAWWE5YdEJJwKAGCYYFciFoBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0DbAQBHGxlWnEpWN0pewl+BWoMTggp/AoFaEgEBAQEBAQEBEAEBAQEBCAsJCSEugh+CCAEBAwEjVgULCxoCJgICRxAGG4geCASvYJN+AQEIAQEBAQEdgSKKT4RaMweCaTGBFAWWE5YdEJJwKAGCYYFciFoBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.17,663,1437429600"; d="scan'208";a="150158691" Received: from mail6.webfaction.com (HELO smtp.webfaction.com) ([74.55.86.74]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 10 Oct 2015 16:09:14 +0200 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (cpc16-cmbg14-2-0-cust300.5-4.cable.virginm.net [86.6.157.45]) by smtp.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10A6207C1A5; Sat, 10 Oct 2015 14:09:11 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 15:09:09 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Daniel_B=C3=BCnzli?= To: "Petter A. Urkedal" Cc: caml users Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: sparrow 1.6.4 (build 1178) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Terser ppx syntax for common usage (like monads) > 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 w= ithout looking up what the build system is doing which is annoying. We shou= ld aim for self-describing sources rather than put too much knowledge in th= e build systems =E2=80=94 which also means that usage of pre-processors sho= uld be frown upon in general. Daniel