Re: Why no macros in CAML Light ?

U-E59264-Osman Buyukisik (Osman.Buyukisik@ae.ge.com)
Wed, 15 Nov 1995 08:44:32 -0500

Message-Id: <199511151342.IAA26577@thomas.ge.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 08:44:32 -0500
From: U-E59264-Osman Buyukisik <Osman.Buyukisik@ae.ge.com>
To: tarizzo@world-net.sct.fr
In-Reply-To: <199511142343.AAA28670@world-net.sct.fr> (tarizzo@world-net.sct.fr)
Subject: Re: Why no macros in CAML Light ?

Why not just use the c preprocessor itself? or m4? I tried
gcc -x c -E -P -DDOS foo.z > foo.ml
and it works. The file had #ifdef/#else/#endif, #define and caml-light list.ml
file in it. Not like the lisp macro facility but it is already available.

Regards,
Osman