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From: Peter Zotov <whitequark@whitequark.org>
To: Jun Furuse <jun.furuse@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>, caml-list-request@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] ppx_overload : ppx for user definable SML style overloading
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:56:24 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d73ce9dd0bb6d400565617d992736b5@whitequark.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAoLEWsY8oJZGMEy5CXxQT3FA8iTnO_Ct2SSgbqaJ4CW4fjSuA@mail.gmail.com>

On 2014-10-13 17:49, Jun Furuse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have OPAM-released ppx_overload, a ppx for user definable SML style
> overloading.

Hi,

Great hack! I wanted to do something similar, but yours is much more
elegant than what I had in mind.

One note though:

> Unfortunately this ppx trick does not work for the toplevel. It is 
> since OCaml toplevel
> re-execute the ppx filter each time it gets a toplevel phrase. This 
> makes the ppx filter
> hard to keep its state, in this case, the typing environment.

In 4.02.1 the toplevel allows the ppx rewriter to save some state.
See 
http://caml.inria.fr/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/ocaml/trunk/parsing/ast_mapper.mli?view=markup#l192.

-- 
Peter Zotov

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-13 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-13 13:49 Jun Furuse
2014-10-13 13:56 ` Peter Zotov [this message]
2014-10-13 14:54   ` Alain Frisch
2014-10-14 13:08     ` Jun Furuse
2014-10-14 14:55       ` Peter Zotov

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