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From: Achim Blumensath <blume@diabolo.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] syntax
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:53:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020206135329.A8026@diabolo.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202052147.g15LlVL25141@orchestra.cs.caltech.edu>; from mvanier@cs.caltech.edu on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:47:31PM -0800

Hello,

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:47:31PM -0800, Michael Vanier wrote:
> I've looked at the revised syntax, and I like most of what I see (except
> for the use of x.val instead of !x).

Since I also dislike the syntax for references, I wrote the following
parser extension:

open Pcaml;

EXTEND
  expr: LEVEL "~-"
  [ [ "!"; x = expr -> <:expr< $x$.val >> ] ];
END;

That way, I can write

  !x := !x + 1

which IMHO combines the benefites of both syntaxes.

Achim
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-06 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-05 21:47 Michael Vanier
2002-02-06 12:24 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-02-06 12:53 ` Achim Blumensath [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-11 11:34 [Caml-list] Threats on future of Camlp4 Kontra, Gergely
2002-10-11 16:36 ` [Caml-list] Syntax brogoff
     [not found] <200202061059.g16Ax2n25555@concorde.inria.fr>
2002-02-06 12:09 ` Diego olivier FERNANDEZ PONS
     [not found] <3C60E263.D2E35B3A@tsc.uc3m.es>
2002-02-06 10:08 ` Diego olivier FERNANDEZ PONS
2002-02-05 14:18 Gerard Huet
2002-02-05 14:49 ` Markus Mottl
2002-02-05 15:16 ` Jean-Francois Monin
2002-02-05 17:51 ` Diego olivier FERNANDEZ PONS

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