haskell-like syntax for o'caml
Hal Daume III
I was wondering if someone had developed a Haskell-like lexer/parser
frontend for O'Caml. As I understand it, the lexer/parser on O'Caml is
replacable. By "Haskell-like" I mean that it uses layout to get rid of
all the "val" and "fun" things; perhaps changing some other stuff too...
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Andreas Rossberg
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> I was wondering if someone had developed a Haskell-like lexer/parser
> frontend for O'Caml. As I understand it, the lexer/parser on O'Caml is
> replacable. By "Haskell-like" I mean that it uses layout to get rid of
> all the "val" and "fun" things; perhaps changing some other stuff too...
Years ago, I wrote a preprocessor that did exactly this, plus recursive
binding group analysis and support for some neat syntactic sugar, like
where clauses, list and array comprehensions, etc. But it wasn't
integrated with the compiler and thus a pain to use, because error
messages for desugared syntax were quite hard to decode and IIRC, OCaml
1 didn't even support #line directives. So I abandoned it. But if you
want, I can dig out the old sources.
- Andreas
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