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From: Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org>
To: Hendrik Tews <H.Tews@cs.ru.nl>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] 2 camlp4 questions
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:54:28 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0704051448190.11577@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17941.26750.232997.697322@tandem.cs.ru.nl>

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Hendrik Tews wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am still reading the camlp4 sources:
>
> 1. Is there a special @loc quotation form? For instance in
>    camlp4/Camlp4Bin.ml line 141
>
>   [ <:sig_item@loc< # $n$ $str:s$ >> -> Some (loc, n, s)
>
>    What does it do? Or is ``sig_item@loc'' just the identifier of
>    the quotation expander?

I can answer this one: @x means "bind the location to x". Before you had
to extract the location explicitely using one of the MLast.loc_of_*
functions.

It's not done by default using _loc because of cases like this one:

match e1, e2 with
  <:expr< ...>>, <:expr< ... >> -> ...


Martin

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-05 21:22 Hendrik Tews
2007-04-05 21:54 ` Martin Jambon [this message]
2007-04-06  0:52 ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Pouillard

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