Error messages do are different:

> cat syntax_error.ml
let f a b =
  a + b *

> ocamlc -c syntax_error.ml
File "syntax_error.ml", line 3, characters 0-0:
Syntax error

> ocamlc -pp camlp4o.opt -c syntax_error.ml
File "syntax_error.ml", line 2, characters 6-7:
Parse error: [expr] expected after [infix operator (level 3) (start with '*', '/', '%')] (in [expr])
Preprocessor error

ocamlc standard parser gives erroneous position, and just complains about "Syntax error", while camlp4 is able to say precisely where the error occurred, and why (here because an expression is expected after the * infix operator). And this really makes the difference for tricky syntax errors (or when learning 
the language - I wish I had been taught of camlp4 back then ^^).


Matthieu Wipliez

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On Dec 10, 2007, at 5:59 PM, Jon Harrop wrote:



 However, using any camlp4 macros requires using the camlp4 replacement for the 
 front-end of the compiler. That uses a different parsing technology (top-down 
 recursive descent LL rather than bottom-up LALR) so the error messages from 
 the compiler are completely different.
 


Just to clarify : the error messages from the *parser* are completely different. Everything after the parser is the same with or without camlp4. Most importantly, you don't have to learn new type-checker messages.


Yitzhak

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