[LLVMdev] ocaml binding question

[Jon Harrop]

On Wednesday 12 December 2007 13:39, Gordon Henriksen wrote:
> Since that ASTs are by definition language-specific, such should
> probably be a separate project because LLVM itself is language-agnostic.

Well, I'd like this to factor out commonality from the implementations of all 
managed languages (everything from C++ to Lisp) so I think it should express 
a typed language with typical control-flow constructs (including exceptions), 
only first-order functions and parametric polymorphism/generics. The generics 
should be handled by JIT compiling type-specialized functions on demand. This 
representation should also be cross-platform.

This could be a language in itself, of course, just as MSIL is but I think 
you'd want to add pattern match compilation, higher-order functions, an 
object system and so forth on top of this to make it useful.

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