On 5/8/07, micha <micha-1@fantasymail.de> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I have classes which have many getter/setter methods. At the moment I
> use two naming schemes intermixed: get_property / set_property and
> property / set_property and I don't like that very much.
> I would like to integrate one camlp4 extension which allows to define
> the getter and setter methods for members, to be able to write:
>
> obj#prob <- xxx;
> print_endline obj#prob;

The pa_oo extension from Jacques Garrigue  does exactly this kind of things:

http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/code/ocaml.html

I attach the upgraded to 3.10 extension.

> Is this a good idea to integrate camlp4 macros in my project?

No in particular when using clean and simple extensions pa_oo.

> If someone who might use my lib  also uses a camlp4 extension, can this
> lead to trouble?

No since people use a compiled version of your library, so all the
sugar provided by macros is gone.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard