Re:Extension Points, or how OCaml is becoming more like Lisp
by p4bl0 on Friday May 09, 2014 @04:32AM
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I'm not convinced by the example given at the end of the article. For this precise very simple use case it might be ok, but what about more complicated syntax extensions?
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Re:Extension Points, or how OCaml is becoming more like Lisp
by avsm on Friday May 09, 2014 @05:30AM
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Camlp4 is still very much around and maintained out of tree, and will work in the next release of OCaml (https://github.com/ocaml/camlp4). Extension points are intended to be simpler and more easily integrated into editors for the common case, but you can still use camlp4 for extensions that genuinely extend the OCaml grammar.