retitle 659002 camlp4o has quotations enabled by default tags 659002 upstream forwarded 659002 http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5508 thanks
Andreas Romeyke <andreas.rome...@dzb.de> writes: Here is the original call: ocamlopt -pp 'camlp4o pa_macro.cmo' brackets.ml OK, the problem is that camlp4o has quotations enabled by default. If you are interested in history see https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/arc/caml-list/2002-10/msg00706.html If you use 'camlp4o -no_quot pa_macro' you get the error message that you expect: File "brackets.ml", line 3, characters 0-1443 (end at line 60, character 0): Comment not terminated File "brackets.ml", line 1, characters 0-1: Error: Preprocessor error I filed an upstream bug report about camlp4o and quotations, see http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5508 I believe the error message you get with -no_quot is sufficient, therefore I tagged this report as being an upstream problem. However, first it is very strange to have a rule "quotation marks must be balanced within comments". There is no good reason to defeat this rule, IMHO. In OCaml you can comment an arbitrary block of valid code by putting '(*' at the beginning and '*)' at the end. That's why strings, chars and quotations are parsed inside comments and why they have to be properly balanced. Other languages do not enjoy this property. Bye, Hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
