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C-like macros in OCaml

Raj B
- Jonathan Bryant
- Richard Jones
  - Jeremy Yallop
    - Loup Vaillant
      - Christopher L Conway
        
        Loup Vaillant
        
        Nicolas Pouillard

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] C-like macros in OCaml

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:00:40PM -0500, Raj B wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> Is there any way I can achieve the use of C-like preprocessor macros  
> in OCaml?
> i.e.
> 
> #define FOO 1
> 
> etc.

What about ocamlc -pp /lib/cpp ? :-)

There's also a camlp4 macro preprocessor, but I can't remember now
whether it can do constant defines like that (IIRC it used not, but
now it can, or something like that).

Rich.

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