On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:49 AM, ben kuin <benk...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks Jake, after browsing through those articles I came to the > conclusion that for understanding and using camlp4 the notion of > quotations and antiquotations is fundamental. My absolute lack of > knowledge in this area might be a reason why I can't figure out how > camlp4 works.
Unfortunately quotations are a rather leaky abstraction. You need to understand what is happening at the AST level to do anything complicated, and to understand what's wrong when you get an error. Anything you can do with quotations you can of course do directly with the AST, since quotations are just syntactic sugar for the AST. But to make the code readable quotations are essential. Jake _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
