From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D540ABC69 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:53:22 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CABe0O0fUVZgL/2dsb2JhbAA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,419,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="4280260" Received: from hades.snarc.org ([212.85.152.11]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 15 Nov 2007 11:53:22 +0100 Received: by hades.snarc.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BF8E81B481; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:53:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:53:20 +0100 To: Edgar Friendly Cc: Jacques Garrigue , caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Compiler feature - useful or not? Message-ID: <20071115105320.GA29693@snarc.org> References: <20071114075827.GA24058@yquem.inria.fr> <473B28DF.2050705@gmail.com> <20071115.091714.58364160.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> <473BE5DD.2000000@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <473BE5DD.2000000@gmail.com> X-Warning: Email may contain unsmilyfied humor and/or satire. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) From: tab@snarc.org (Vincent Hanquez) X-Spam: no; 0.00; compiler:01 camlp:01 camlp:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 edgar:98 wrote:01 incompatible:01 caml-list:01 dialects:03 thu:05 vincent:07 vincent:07 useful:09 i'm:09 On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:23:25AM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote: > > I'm sure camlp4 can do that. > > > It can. But camlp4 holds back real development of the OCaml Community > by dividing the language into incompatible splinter dialects or forcing > us to code in pure OCaml which has little sugar. I'm glad that some people feels the same way about camlp4 ! this is really sad, that people thinks camlp4 is a great idea ... -- Vincent Hanquez