On Sep 23, 2010, at 11:49 AM, ben kuin wrote:

> thanks Jake, after browsing through those articles I came to the
> conclusion that for understanding and using camlp4 the notion of
> quotations and antiquotations is fundamental. My absolute lack of
> knowledge in this area might be a reason why I can't figure out how
> camlp4 works.

Do you know how macros work in other languages ?
You could have a look at Lisp macros which are simpler than OCaml macros:
 http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/macros.html
Understanding lisp macros could be a good step towards understanding ocaml macros.

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> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Jake Donham <jake@donham.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:25 AM, bluestorm <bluestorm.dylc@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> For an accessible introduction to modern (>= 3.10) Camlp4, you may be
>>> interested in Jake Donham's blog post series "Reading Camlp4" :
>>> http://ambassadortothecomputers.blogspot.com/search/label/camlp4
>> 
>> You can also see the articles in sequence at
>> 
>>  http://ambassadortothecomputers.blogspot.com/p/reading-camlp4.html
>> 
>> which I recommend since later articles depend on earlier material.
>> 
>> Jake
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