[wg-camlp4] Meta Programming from the view of the implementaion

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:12:03AM +0100, Alain Frisch wrote:
> 
> 1. You loose all support from your editor (indentation, coloring,
> parentheses matching).  Am I the only one who finds this really
> problematic?  With quotations, my emacs looks like notepad...
> Indentation and coloring do find typos on the fly; automatic
> indentation makes it easy to copy/paste code from one context to
> another one.

Better editor support is the single biggest feature I'd like from the
switch to a more specialised ppx.  I've looked at customising the superb
Cloud9 Javascript editor, and the major blocker is having to run
everything through camlp4 all the time.

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Anil Madhavapeddy                                 http://anil.recoil.org