From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Metaprogramming features
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 09:23:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081004082346.GA18277@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810040303.04559.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 03:03:04AM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Saturday 04 October 2008 01:49:08 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If try..finally will not be accepted what makes you think that a MetaOCaml
> patch would be accepted?
Where did you post the working compiler patch that implements
try/finally? Where did you nurse the patch through many iterations,
as the language designers asked you to fix one thing and another,
before the final patch was rejected?
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-04 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-03 14:34 Jacques Carette
2008-10-03 15:09 ` [Caml-list] " Dario Teixeira
2008-10-04 2:00 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04 9:03 ` David Teller
2008-10-04 14:22 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-06 14:06 ` Brian Hurt
2008-10-06 15:56 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-06 16:46 ` Chung-chieh Shan
2008-10-07 0:17 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-10-07 12:49 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-10-07 15:36 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-07 16:31 ` Jacques Carette
2008-10-03 16:01 ` [Caml-list] " David Teller
2008-10-03 21:14 ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-10-04 2:17 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04 9:10 ` David Teller
2008-10-04 0:49 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-10-04 2:03 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04 8:23 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2008-10-04 14:31 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04 13:57 ` Richard Jones
2008-10-04 19:41 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-04 19:04 ` Richard Jones
2008-10-05 1:05 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-06 16:54 ` Chung-chieh Shan
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