[wg-camlp4] getting bitstring to work with Core

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 07:08:51PM +0200, Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> 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.

I think I tried to have a camlp4 extension insert something at
the beginning of the output, and concluded it wasn't possible.

Or perhaps I'm mis-remembering ...?

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat