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

Leo White lpw25 at cam.ac.uk
Thu Jan 31 14:02:02 GMT 2013


On Jan 31 2013, Török Edwin wrote:

>On 01/31/2013 03:56 PM, Leo White wrote:
>>> What do you think of this syntax:
>>> {:lid|...|lid:}
>> 
>> What about nested uses of the same quotation?
>> 
>
> Handled like nested comments, assuming the lexer knows where the 
> anti-quotations are.

An assumption that I really don't think we should make. It involves forcing 
a particular style of anti-quotation on all extensions. Besides it is 
easier to simply use a syntax that supports unique delimiters.



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