Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3-RESEND 03/28] libxl: ocaml: avoid reserved words in type and field names.

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob Hoes writes ("RE: [PATCH v3-RESEND 03/28] libxl: ocaml: avoid reserved 
words in type and field names."):
> > There aren't all that many ocaml keywords, I suppose? I expect
> > many of them are unlikely field names. If we don't want to
> > enumerate them up front (which I would accept, it's a bit tedious)
> > I'd be perfectly happy to fault things in as the libxl IDL gains
> > new inconveniently named fields, it'll break the build so we
> > should notice pretty quickly!
> 
> I'd be very happy with that, if it is acceptable to you and IanJ!

That would be fine by me.  I would marginally prefer to simply dump a
list of the ocaml keywords into the ocaml idl generator.

(I definitely agree with Ian that the transformation should be such
that most words are unchanged.  I think  s/^(xl_)*(KEYWORD)$/xl_$&/
should do it.)

Ian.

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