On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 12:32 +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> API changes are handled really badly in OCaml, ironically because of
> the lack of a textual preprocessor.  You can't just write this every
> time lablgtk / calendar / latest culprit decides to change their API:
>
> #ifdef LABLGTK < 210
>   let icon = GMisc.image () in
>   icon#set_stock icon_type ~size:size;
>   icon
> #else
>   let icon = GMisc.image () in
>   icon#set_stock `DIALOG_ERROR;
>   icon#set_icon_size `DIALOG;
>   icon
> #endif

Side-note: That's certainly something we could add to Batteries, if
needed. Camlp4 is pretty-much necessary to use Batteries anyway and
Camlp4 already defines IFDEF, INCLUDE, etc. We would just need to
complete that DSL perhaps to accept any valid OCaml expression and call
the ocaml interpreter to evaluate these expressions.

Cheers,
 David

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