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by seanhunter 1112 days ago
I haven’t used it for some time but OCaml certainly used to have a zoo of incompatible compiler extensions. Circa 2008 or so I once hit on the brilliant idea of using protobufs to get two mutually incompatible halves of an ocaml program to talk to one another only to find that required yet another compiler extension to work.
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Are you thinking of preprocessors? Back then, it would have been via Camlp4 and Camlp5.
Aah yes I am