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From: Peter Jolly <peter@j...>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Slight parsing difference with/without -pp "camlp4o" 
Michel Mauny wrote:
> Hum, according to the grammar given at
> http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/htmlman/manual008.html, this should be
> accepted by ocaml. Either the spec is too large, or the ocaml parser
> is too restrictive (and camlp4o conforms to the spec, here).

Camlp4o is also more permissive with "with" in record constructions:

   $ cat test.ml
   type t = { a: int }
   let f() = { a = 0 }
   let y = { f() with a = 1 }

   $ ocamlc -pp camlp4o test.ml
   $ ocamlc test.ml
   File "test.ml", line 3, characters 11-12:
   Syntax error

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