[wg-camlp4] [opam-devel] Changes to the parsetree
Anil Madhavapeddy
anil at recoil.org
Tue Mar 26 15:27:19 GMT 2013
On 26 Mar 2013, at 15:25, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas at ocamlpro.com> wrote:
>> Thomas, any objections to me doing this rearrangement in OCamlPro/opam-repository?
>
> No pb. I am just a bit concerned with the list of compilers growing unbounded, but for now I think it's completely fine.
>
Right, so this would reduce the number of compilers in OCamlPro/opam-repository and move them to this experimental one.
I wonder if it's time to have an OPAM remotes discovery service :-)
-anil
> Thomas
>
>>
>> -anil
>>
>> On 26 Mar 2013, at 15:15, Mike McClurg <mike.mcclurg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Alain,
>>>
>>> Thanks for writing up that proposal. Is the code in your extension_points branch ready for testing at all yet?
>>>
>>> On a separate note, might it be a good idea to add an opam-repo-dev repository to github.com/ocaml, which would provide opam switches for all the experimental OCaml branches, such as extension_points? Or is there such an experimental opam repo out there already?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Alain Frisch <alain.frisch at lexifi.com> wrote:
>>> On 03/25/2013 03:13 PM, jathdr wrote:
>>> Could we get a summary of the current syntax proposal? I've been
>>> following along, but I'm a bit lost as to what has been discussed,
>>> accepted, rejected, etc.
>>>
>>> This file describes the current syntax proposal:
>>>
>>> http://caml.inria.fr/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/ocaml/branches/extension_points/experimental/frisch/extension_points.txt?revision=HEAD&view=markup
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is probably a bit off topic, but while we're talking about
>>> interval patterns: I discovered the other day that interval patterns
>>> only work for chars, while I always assumed they also worked for
>>> ints. Is there a reason why they don't?
>>>
>>> Currently, range patterns for characters are expanded in the parser. Doing so for integers as well could lead to huge or-patterns to be processed by the rest of the compiler. Supporting range patterns directly in the compiler would add a little bit of extra complexity for type-checking (exhaustiveness check) and code generation. I don't see any theoretical problem, though.
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Alain
>>>
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