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

Yaron Minsky yminsky at janestreet.com
Wed Apr 3 20:47:49 BST 2013


Alain, if we were to do some experimentation, which branch of the
compiler should we try it on?

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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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