Re: [Caml-list] Camlp4/OCaml [was: Generating C stubs]

[james woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>]

On Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 04:31 AM, Markus Mottl wrote:
> [...]
> What I consider at least as important is how to introduce syntactic
> changes into a language without driving users mad.  This gets us back
> to the topic of having camlp4 in the distribution or not. I think that
> irrespective of the syntactic rules the community can finally agree on,
> a tool like camlp4 would be very welcome to support a transition.

I'd like to go on record as agreeing with what Markus wrote about syntax 
issues in Ocaml in the message excerpted above.  In addition, the 
paragraph I chose to quote represents an opinion that I, too, hold quite 
strongly.


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j h woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>
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