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From: Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
To: Inria Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] too few public grammar entry points
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:16:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8560b805041908161e165872@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050419072527.GA2689@fistandantilus.takhisis.org>

On 4/19/05, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@bononia.it> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:19:43PM -0700, Martin Jambon wrote:
> > If the entry that contains this rule is public, then you can delete the
> > rule and rewrite it, and everything is fine.
> > Otherwise, you have to improvise. Which is the case here: the type_kind
> > entry is not visible from outside.
> 
> I think this is a major problem with current campl4 situation. In my
> experience one starts extending an entry point of the ocaml grammar,
> then discover that he needs to extend something else, but unfortunately
> that "something else" is not public.
> 
> Why there are so few grammar entry points made public?
> 
> I think camlp4-ers life woule be a lot easier if more of them are made
> public.

I second this suggestion: please add more public entry points to the grammar.

Regards,
Markus

-- 
Markus Mottl        http://www.ocaml.info        markus.mottl@gmail.com


  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-19 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-18 19:07 Camlp4: extending syntax of record definitions Markus Mottl
2005-04-18 20:19 ` [Caml-list] " Martin Jambon
2005-04-19  7:25   ` too few public grammar entry points Stefano Zacchiroli
2005-04-19 15:16     ` Markus Mottl [this message]
2005-04-19 15:13   ` [Caml-list] Camlp4: extending syntax of record definitions Markus Mottl
2005-04-19 21:51     ` Martin Jambon

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