Re: [Caml-list] Camlp4 integration

[Olivier Andrieu <andrieu@ijm.jussieu.fr>]

 skaller [ 5 October 2003] :
 > 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.

You can almost do this since camlp4 recognizes the #load directive in
.ml files. That way you only put `-pp camlp4o' on the command line and
the particular syntax extension is in the .ml file. It simplifies
Makefiles a lot.

-- 
   Olivier

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