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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


  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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