From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA27170 for caml-redistribution; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 08:50:34 +0100 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA20011 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:23:06 +0100 Received: from margaux.inria.fr (margaux.inria.fr [128.93.8.2]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.7.1/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA28943 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:23:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by margaux.inria.fr (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA13734 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:23:05 +0100 Received: from polytechnique.polytechnique.fr (root@polytechnique.polytechnique.fr [129.104.30.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.7.1/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA28939 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:23:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from poly.polytechnique.fr (dXpFv0le3+ax5PWcFBnYgmSF2RXz49bC@poly.polytechnique.fr [129.104.252.1]) by polytechnique.polytechnique.fr (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA27182 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:40:35 +0100 Received: (from canon@localhost) by poly.polytechnique.fr (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA17089 for caml-list@margaux.inria.fr; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:23:08 +0100 From: Hubert Canon Message-Id: <199511152023.VAA17089@poly.polytechnique.fr> Subject: Why no macros in CAML Light ? To: caml-list@margaux.inria.fr Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:23:08 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: weis > > Even simpler: use the C preprocessor itself! (with the -P option) > > I know, it is tractable only under Unix, and using Makefiles... > Furthermore cpp is not 8bits clean but Caml Light is so it would be a > limitation to the expressivity of Caml Light. There are other good preprocessors. For instance I use m4, which exists in a DOS version too. -- -------------------------- Hubert Canon -------------------------- Email : canon@poly.polytechnique.fr WWW : http://www.polytechnique.fr/poly/~canon/ ------------------------------------------------------------------