0004346: Camlp4 messes up comments within and after records.

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0004346

OCaml

Camlp4

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2007-07-18 02:55

2012-09-15 00:05

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low

Severity

minor

Reproducibility

always

Status

acknowledged

Resolution

open

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3.10+dev

Target Version

4.01.0+dev

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Summary

0004346: Camlp4 messes up comments within and after records.

Description

$ cat tst.ml
(** comment of t *)
type t =
  {
    mutable a : int; (** a *)
    mutable b : int; (** b *)
    mutable c : int; (** c *)
    mutable d : int; (** d *)
    mutable e : int; (** e *)
  }
(** after *)
$ camlp4o tst.ml
(** comment of t *)
type t =
  { (** a *) (** b *) (** c *) mutable a : int; mutable b : int;
    mutable c : int; mutable d : int; (** d *) mutable e : int
  }

cat tst_bis.ml
(** comment of t *)
type t =
  {
    mutable a : int; (** a *)
    mutable b : int; (** b *)
    mutable c : int; (** c *)
    mutable d : int; (** d *)
    mutable e : int; (** e *)
  }
(** after *)
()
$ camlp4o tst_bis.ml
(** comment of t *)
type t =
  { (** a *) (** b *) (** c *) mutable a : int; mutable b : int;
    mutable c : int; mutable d : int; (** d *) mutable e : int
  }
(** e *)
(** after *)
let _ = ()

Additional Information

This becomes extremely annoying when the output is intended to be used by ocamldoc.

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related to	0004713	feedback	dim	Camlp4o messes with comments
related to	0004545	acknowledged		Camlp4 preprocessing messes up the documentation.

Notes
(0004105) ertai (developer) 2007-07-18 14:45	Dealing with comments while making structured program manipulation is still an open problem. I will try to improve it but not in the mean time.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2007-07-18 02:55	jm	New Issue
2007-07-18 14:45	ertai	Note Added: 0004105
2007-07-18 14:45	ertai	Assigned To	=> ertai
2007-07-18 14:45	ertai	Priority	normal => low
2007-07-18 14:45	ertai	Status	new => acknowledged
2012-07-11 16:06	doligez	Relationship added	related to 0004713
2012-07-11 16:06	doligez	Relationship added	related to 0004545
2012-07-11 16:06	doligez	Target Version	=> 4.01.0+dev
2012-07-12 11:27	doligez	Assigned To	ertai =>
2012-07-31 13:37	doligez	Target Version	4.01.0+dev => 4.00.1+dev
2012-09-15 00:05	doligez	Target Version	4.00.1+dev => 4.01.0+dev