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From: "François Pottier" <francois.pottier@inria.fr>
To: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zotov <whitequark@whitequark.org>, caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ppx_deriving question: deferring code generation?
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 16:37:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <78c6cc72-a165-dff1-2ed3-3afa66088ef0@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPFanBFfXpF-G9DK7io8c0hR2DT2rA=DwK8F0pC5Ffw7HvHFmg@mail.gmail.com>


Hello Gabriel,
On 04/01/2017 14:49, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
> (If we had access to the type-checking environment,

Indeed, that is the question. As far as I understand, the whole ppx 
system today is purely syntactic, and there is no way of looking up
the definition of a type. Or is there?

-- 
François Pottier
francois.pottier@inria.fr
http://gallium.inria.fr/~fpottier/

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-04 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-04 13:08 François Pottier
2017-01-04 13:49 ` Gabriel Scherer
2017-01-04 15:37   ` François Pottier [this message]
2017-01-04 13:53 ` Christoph Höger
2017-01-04 15:58   ` François Pottier
2017-01-04 15:20 ` Alain Frisch
2017-01-04 16:04   ` François Pottier
2017-01-06 22:58 ` whitequark

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