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[OSR] Standard syntax extensions ?

David Teller
- John Whitington
  - Richard Jones
    - Richard Jones
- Stefano Zacchiroli
  - David Teller
    - Stefano Zacchiroli
- Martin Jambon
  - Jon Harrop
    - Berke Durak
      - Richard Jones
        
        Berke Durak
        
        Gerd Stolpmann
        
        Richard Jones
      - Andrej Bauer
    - David Teller
- Dario Teixeira
  - Peng Zang
    - David Teller
      - Peng Zang
- Arthur Chan
  - Richard Jones
    - Till Crueger
      - Arthur Chan
        
        Andrej Bauer
        
        Christopher L Conway
        
        David Teller
      - David Teller
- Mike Lin

Date:	2008-04-24 (17:09)
From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] Standard syntax extensions ?

On Thursday 24 April 2008 17:41:17 Martin Jambon wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, David Teller wrote:
> > * which syntax extensions do you use so often that you consider they
> > should be part of the language ?
>
> None because it creates unneeded dependencies between unrelated
> libraries.

Agreed. There are some glaring omissions, like try..finally, but they should 
be fixed properly in the compiler and not using camlp<n> macros.

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