[wg-camlp4] getting bitstring to work with Core

Christophe TROESTLER Christophe.Troestler at umons.ac.be
Tue May 28 18:08:51 BST 2013


On Tue, 28 May 2013 12:40:33 -0400, Stephen Weeks wrote:
> 
> > It's the build system integration that fills me with dread (figuring
> > out the ocamlfind META runes, how to plumb this through to ocamlbuild,
> > OASIS and OMake, and activate it only for files that use Core).
> 
> I see.  Waiting for namespaces might be the way to go then.
> 
> One way that might simplify the build-system nightmare a bit would be
> to always have the Caml module in scope and to have bitstring always
> generate references to it, whether or not one is compiling against
> Core.

How about that bitstring (automatically) inserts aliases of the
Prevasive modules it needs at the beginning of the file (thus, before
Core is opened) and refers to these?  It will then work regardless of
the modules that are shadowed.

My 0.02€,
C.


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