From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA22311; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:55:52 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA22309 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:55:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f85Etnn11496; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:55:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (patrick@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id f85Etgo66701; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:55:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from patrick@watson.org) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:55:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick M Doane To: Daniel de Rauglaudre cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Different types of streams In-Reply-To: <20010905164449.A13717@verdot.inria.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote: > > - Modifiying the caml compilers to always use camlp4 for preprocessing. > > I have renounced that since a long time: they love yacc too much. Most > people consider that parsing = LALR and no other technic can exist. This bias may affect people who want to write campl4 extensions, but how does this apply to users of those extensions? Anyone willing to write an extension probably doesn't mind including another argument on the command line. It's the users of these extensions that need things to be simple. Patrick Doane ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr