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Date: | 2002-05-16 (21:38) |
From: | Markus Mottl <markus@o...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Camlp4/OCaml [was: Generating C stubs] |
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:39:45PM -0400, John Prevost wrote: > > Really? Why did someone decide that inclusion was a bad idea? > I say it. Camlp4 and the attempts to improve the syntax have been > considered *officially* by the OCaml team as a "not serious" work > and a "loss of time". As I worried about that, and asked for more > information, it has been confirmed by the team, moreover with several > personnal attacks. Sigh. I also don't want to mess with social issues at INRIA, but find it strange indeed that this is the official line. The only reason so far why I didn't use camlp4 too often in the past was _because_ it obviously didn't get enough official support. Its addition to the standard distribution seemed like a good idea to me. I consider it a very useful tool for a language that is still a somewhat moving target and which may require syntax changes in the future. Those could be done with much less hassle given a powerful tool. Not to mention extensions needed by users. The syntax question has already been raised here several times so I don't want to do it again. Suffice it to say that OCaml _has_ syntactic problems about which beginners stumble frequently as I still remember from my beginner time and as I can observe with people whom I have just recently converted. One can get accustomed to and work around those issues, but this doesn't really make them go away. Regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl markus@oefai.at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.oefai.at/~markus ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners