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From: David Teller <David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr>
To: Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>
Cc: OCaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Metaprogramming features
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:01:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223049697.6282.8.camel@Blefuscu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48E62D5B.3060400@mcmaster.ca>

Gasp, lobbying on this list ? :)

I strongly agree with that feature request. One reason is  all the code
which is currently in Camlp4 but actually deserves the MetaOCaml
treatment. The other reason is that I believe that the Haskell vs. OCaml
race matters.

Cheers,
 David

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 10:34 -0400, Jacques Carette wrote:

> Note that OCaml could be really ahead of Haskell here (with its untyped
> Template Haskell, which is closer to camlp4 than to metaocaml) by being
> the first production language to have _typed_ metaprogramming facilities.
> ===================
> 
> This feature request is currently the entry in Mantis which has (by far!) the largest number of comments from separate people, as well as now being the entry with the most comments overall.  
> 
> Please add your voice to the chorus!
> 
> Jacques

-- 
David Teller-Rajchenbach
 Security of Distributed Systems
  http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/David.Teller
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-03 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-03 14:34 Jacques Carette
2008-10-03 15:09 ` [Caml-list] " Dario Teixeira
2008-10-04  2:00   ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04  9:03     ` David Teller
2008-10-04 14:22       ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-06 14:06     ` Brian Hurt
2008-10-06 15:56       ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-06 16:46         ` Chung-chieh Shan
2008-10-07  0:17           ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-10-07 12:49             ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-10-07 15:36               ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-07 16:31                 ` Jacques Carette
2008-10-03 16:01 ` David Teller [this message]
2008-10-03 21:14   ` [Caml-list] " Paolo Donadeo
2008-10-04  2:17   ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04  9:10     ` David Teller
2008-10-04  0:49 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-10-04  2:03   ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04  8:23     ` Richard Jones
2008-10-04 14:31       ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04 13:57         ` Richard Jones
2008-10-04 19:41           ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04 19:04             ` Richard Jones
2008-10-05  1:05               ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-06 16:54               ` Chung-chieh Shan

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