[wg-camlp4] Pending issues

[Hongbo Zhang]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Alain Frisch <alain.frisch at lexifi.com>wrote:

>
> 5. Fork Parsetree or clean it up?
>
> Hongbo has proposed that we introduce a different representation of the
> Parsetree on which -ppx rewriters would be applied.  Concretely, we could
> fork parsetree.mli into parsetree.mli/ast.mli, clean up parsetree (see
> below) and adapt parser.mly accordingly, and then implement a translation
> pass from Parsetree to Ast before running the type-checker on Ast.  The
> alternative is to clean up Parsetree directly and adapt the type-checker to
> these changes.  This avoids an extra intermediate language and the mapping,
> but this could add a little bit of extra complexity to the type-checker
> (and it might be more difficult to convince core developers).  What do
> people think?
>
> Hi Alain, This is great , and you have more freedom to clean up the Ast,
for example, remove the unnecessary prefix names without breaking other
existing software.

> Alain
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