On 1/14/07, Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 06:23:32PM +0000, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > > > > If you're bored with
> > > > > begin/end a good solution might be to define a new construct using
> > > > > camlp4 instead of hacking the compiler. It's the good advice in
> > > > > general for syntax problems.
> > >
> > > Writing things in camlp4 could help me, but won't improve the world of
> > > ocaml.
> >
> > It will if you do something more productive with camlp4, like try...finally
> > or ...
>
> and create lots of different syntax which make the code unsharable at
> the end (each one using different syntaxes).
>
> I think camlp4 is the not the proper way to extends the language, and is
> definitevely *NOT* going to improve the world of OCaml.
>

Although remind you that a property of camlp4 syntaxes is that you can
trivially convert an input source in plain (indented) OCaml code. This
is done using the Pr_o module, an OCaml pretty printer.

Thus, you can share it.

$ camlp4 some_strange_syntax.cmo pr_o.cmo foo.ml -o foo_ocaml.ml

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard