Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
I'm curious, can metaocaml create new data type definitions, value
declarations or type class instances?
No metaocaml cannot do this. It is restricted to the expression
level, and not the declaration level. Moreover you cannot pattern
match
Jacques Carette wrote:
Jason Dagit wrote:
Are you implying that template haskell is not typed?
Indeed. [...]
Compare with metaocaml where if you can compile you meta-program (i.e.
code generator), then you are guaranteed that it can only ever produce
valid, well-typed code. Not so with
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:08:45 +0200, Heinrich Apfelmus
apfel...@quantentunnel.de wrote:
Jacques Carette wrote:
Jason Dagit wrote:
Are you implying that template haskell is not typed?
Indeed. [...]
Compare with metaocaml where if you can compile you meta-program (i.e.
code
One thing I should have mentionned - TH and camlp4 are really
equivalents. And camlp4 is as-typed-as TH (or not, depending on your
point of view). I am co-author of a camlp4 extension, and I must admit
that coding in camlp4 was not enjoyable, while coding in metaocaml
(eventually) is.
[I
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:37:59 -0400, Jacques Carette care...@mcmaster.ca wrote:
One thing I should have mentionned - TH and camlp4 are really
equivalents. And camlp4 is as-typed-as TH (or not, depending on your
point of view). I am co-author of a camlp4 extension, and I must admit
that
