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 mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6467BBB7 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:09:57 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhUDAC/S5UjAXQImiGdsb2JhbACTYQEBARUioC+IAgM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,356,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="17631955" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 03 Oct 2008 17:09:57 +0200 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m93F9YPO011893 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:09:57 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhsBAOPS5UjOvjGrmmdsb2JhbACTYQEBAQEBCAsKBxEDoCiIAgM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,357,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="29874152" Received: from web54601.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.49.171]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with SMTP; 03 Oct 2008 17:09:52 +0200 Received: (qmail 59605 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Oct 2008 15:09:40 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=o9c3vJR9Y0oaNqurncMrRclNlu6kzhgmEuih5fBnzq18Rupa22XaZbJfb7608MjD/ymd2qbRrtXXxU/8R9G13hxitjUI3/xXuhiw7sLjuk1VRBfBoy9kW/4K4FUbmHYBjaVT6lQWsGiA3THkvWK0cGf6hAcneGZoy/c2NL0Cr18=; X-YMail-OSG: iHTot4wVM1nMVyIaF7E8Uj3e48_tFON3c.1p_J4SkuYL40V9J4bMrQdf_geFzlZj9Q-- Received: from [213.205.71.62] by web54601.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:09:40 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.218.2 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 08:09:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Dario Teixeira Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Metaprogramming features To: OCaml , Jacques Carette In-Reply-To: <48E62D5B.3060400@mcmaster.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <884069.59268.qm@web54601.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 48E635AE.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; metaocaml:01 ocaml:01 metaocaml:01 cheers:01 experimental:01 caml-list:01 namely:02 mean:08 basic:17 really:19 needed:20 features:20 features:20 could:21 could:21 Hi, > I really wish that the basic features of metaocaml, namely > .< >., .~ and .! were included in OCaml proper. The many other > experimental features of metaocaml could stay 'experimental', > those are the 3 which are sorely needed. To those of us not familiar with MetaOcaml, could you give us an overview of what these features mean and why they are so special? Cheers, Dario =0A=0A=0A