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=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D31BBAF for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 02:50:19 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhUDAGZa5kjAXQImiGdsb2JhbACTYQEBARUip02BaA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,359,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="18173769" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 04 Oct 2008 02:50:19 +0200 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m940oJVR028260 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 02:50:19 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhUDAA5b5khDz4HeiGdsb2JhbACTYQEBARUip0yBaA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,359,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="15648821" Received: from fettunta.fettunta.org ([67.207.129.222]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 04 Oct 2008 02:50:18 +0200 Received: from usha.takhisis.invalid (unknown [10.17.0.18]) by fettunta.fettunta.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64BA0182A4 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 00:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by usha.takhisis.invalid (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 353CA6A98; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 02:49:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 01:49:08 +0100 From: Stefano Zacchiroli To: OCaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Metaprogramming features Message-ID: <20081004004908.GA32229@usha.takhisis.invalid> Mail-Followup-To: OCaml References: <48E62D5B.3060400@mcmaster.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48E62D5B.3060400@mcmaster.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 48E6BDCB.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; zacchiroli:01 zack:01 bug:01 cheers:01 zacchiroli:01 postdoc:01 zack:01 wrote:01 pps:01 caml-list:01 jussieu:01 caml:02 jacques:03 patches:03 vanilla:03 On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:34:03AM -0400, Jacques Carette wrote: > Please add your voice to the chorus! No, please don't. It is pointless enough to have tons of AOL messages in the bug log, we really don't want the same on list. Sorry if I'm being too frank, but I don't see the usefulness of your post. I would love to see basic meta-programming feature in vanilla Caml, but the way to make it happen is for sure not lobbying / making noise. The way is provide patches which implement the requested feature. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time