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_19qg on May 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Extension Points, or how OCaml is becoming more li...

One thing that's not nice in typical Lisp macros: for really complex transformations one needs a code walker. Unfortunately that part has a few problems: no standard code walker, complex api, different ways to access crucial information about the code in various implementations, ...

rwmj on May 9, 2014 [–]

OCaml has a type-safe AST walker (two actually - one is part of camlp4 and the other called ocaml-ast-analyze).

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