Re: [Caml-list] Camlp4 integration

[skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 21:29, Alain.Frisch@ens.fr wrote:
> On 4 Oct 2003, skaller wrote:
> 
> > Just some notes on camlp4. One problem I have noticed
> > is that camlp4'd codes don't work so well with other
> > tools such as ocamldep and ocamldoc. Both these programs
> > parse Ocaml but can't load camlp4 to do the job.
> > [I think you have to use pr_o.cmo to print a standard
> > Ocaml file to use them?]
> 
> Both ocamldep and ocamldoc accept the -pp argument.

It isn't not documented?

>  Sometimes, it would be
> more convenient to specify the syntax extensions directly in the Caml
> sources.

Yes, i think that would be nice.
There's a related issue for C++ where some discussion of
a directive:

#language "iso-9988"

or whatever so extensions in the next version don't
break existing codes (mainly by some identifiers becoming keywords).


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