Make ppx_metaquot a source-level utility

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Tools for authors of ppx rewriters

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Make ppx_metaquot a source-level utility #45

Open bobzhang opened 8 years ago

bobzhang commented 8 years ago

currently ppx_metaquot.ml is hard coded with Ast_mapper.run_main which makes it can not be reused as a library.

the only way to use ppx_metaquot is ocamlc.opt -ppx ppx_metaquot (it will imply type checking which is a bit annoying)

My use case is that I want to have a command line utilty to do pure source transformation, so I can check in generated code without imposing dependencies to my users, are you interested in such use case? thanks

alainfrisch commented 8 years ago

If you only want to source transformation without running the compiler, you can use the rewriter tool, part of this package. Otherwise, I'm not against splitting ppx_metaquot into a reusable library and the ppx wrapper; feel free to submit a PR.