From: Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
To: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
Cc: Hongbo Zhang <bobzhang1988@gmail.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Syntax extensions without Camlp4
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 09:18:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_800pf5phqPah_LX8iKnSxoQt6TbjsRTSLX_aJiF36aa-+ag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FC61595.6070009@frisch.fr>
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr> wrote:
> In addition, there is a growing consensus that the most common uses of
> camlp4 (such as code generation driven by type declaration) might be based
> on a much simpler approach, and this would actually have advantages for the
> end-users (like not changing the concrete syntax)
> and for developers (much less information to grasp in order to write such an
> extension).
I agree that most OCaml developers only need a tiny subset of the
powerful but also overly complex features provided by camlp4. These
features could surely be provided in a much simpler framework. Making
camlp4 an external tool for heavy-duty grammar modifications would
make sense to me. I'd rather see a well-supported light-weight
solution with AST attributes. Something like MetaOCaml for (runtime)
code generation would seem exciting, too.
Regards,
Markus
--
Markus Mottl http://www.ocaml.info markus.mottl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-30 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-27 15:06 [Caml-list] " Alexandre Pilkiewicz
2012-05-27 16:53 ` [Caml-list] " Hongbo Zhang
2012-05-27 18:04 ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-05-27 18:18 ` Hongbo Zhang
2012-05-27 19:01 ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-05-27 22:43 ` Wojciech Meyer
2012-05-28 9:35 ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-05-28 9:59 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-05-30 14:45 ` Hongbo Zhang
2012-05-28 11:17 ` Wojciech Meyer
2012-05-28 15:52 ` Jeffrey Scofield
2012-05-27 18:19 ` Hongbo Zhang
2012-05-28 8:17 ` Paolo Donadeo
2012-05-30 12:41 ` Alain Frisch
2012-05-30 13:18 ` Markus Mottl [this message]
2012-05-30 13:37 ` Dan Bensen
2012-05-30 14:16 ` Hongbo Zhang
2012-05-30 14:23 ` Paolo Donadeo
[not found] ` <20120531081913.GA26742@securactive.lan>
2012-05-31 12:26 ` Paolo Donadeo
2012-05-31 12:38 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2012-05-31 12:40 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2012-05-31 12:46 ` Yaron Minsky
2012-05-31 12:47 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-05-31 22:08 ` Paolo Donadeo
2012-05-30 14:14 ` Hongbo Zhang
2012-05-31 12:59 ` Alain Frisch
2012-05-31 13:21 ` Dmitry Grebeniuk
2012-05-31 14:30 ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-05-31 16:01 ` bob zhang
2012-05-31 17:28 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-05-31 18:03 ` Wojciech Meyer
2012-05-31 18:32 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2012-05-31 18:32 ` Hongbo Zhang
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