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To: Daniel de Rauglaudre <daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: How to cleanly encode "quasi-constants"?
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From: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
Date: 01 Jul 2000 20:01:54 +1000
In-Reply-To: Daniel de Rauglaudre's message of "Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:04:23 +0200"
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Daniel de Rauglaudre <daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> > Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:12:50 -0700 (PDT), Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com> pisze:
> > 
> > > I admit I'm also fond of the Revised syntax.
> > 
> > Sorry, I'm new: what is the Revised syntax? Where can I read about it?
> 
> It is a alternative syntax for Ocaml proposed in Camlp4, supposed to
> fix some syntax problems in the language.
> 
>      http://caml.inria.fr/camlp4/manual/

The revised syntax is cleaner, but drops so much syntactic sugar, that the 
language becomes ugly due to its verbosity.

Cheers,
Julian.