Why no macros in CAML Light ?

Hubert Canon (canon@poly.polytechnique.fr)
Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:23:08 +0100 (MET)

From: Hubert Canon <canon@poly.polytechnique.fr>
Message-Id: <199511152023.VAA17089@poly.polytechnique.fr>
Subject: Why no macros in CAML Light ?
To: caml-list@margaux.inria.fr
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:23:08 +0100 (MET)

> > Even simpler: use the C preprocessor itself! (with the -P option)
> > I know, it is tractable only under Unix, and using Makefiles...
> Furthermore cpp is not 8bits clean but Caml Light is so it would be a
> limitation to the expressivity of Caml Light.

There are other good preprocessors. For instance I use m4, which
exists in a DOS version too.

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