[wg-camlp4] Extension developers: we need you!

Alain Frisch alain.frisch at lexifi.com
Thu Apr 4 08:34:54 BST 2013


Hi Yaron,

All the development has been done on the extension_points branch in the 
SVN.  Don't hesitate to comment early or ask for support if you start 
some experimentation!

Alain


On 04/03/2013 09:47 PM, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> Alain, if we were to do some experimentation, which branch of the
> compiler should we try it on?
>
> y
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Alain Frisch <alain.frisch at lexifi.com> wrote:
>> Now is a good time to start collecting more concrete feedback from extension
>> developers on the current proposal (ppx + extension_points). Are there
>> people on this list interested in porting their existing extensions (or
>> other tools which can benefit from attributes)?   This will be greatly
>> helpful if the current design can be validated by real extension developers.
>> Porting real extensions will also help to isolate a good set of
>> "convenience" functions to build or deconstruct AST fragments in a light
>> way.
>>
>> (Disclaimer: there will still be some more cleanups to the Parsetree
>> definition and helper modules (Ast_mapper, Ast_helper), so the code written
>> now will need to be adjusted for the final version, but I expect those
>> changes to be quite easy.)
>>
>>
>> -- Alain
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