From now and then, I found myself having to write some mechanical and repetitive code. The usual solution for this is to write a code generator; for instance in the form of a ppx rewriter in the case of OCaml code. This however comes with a cost: code generators are harder to review than plain code and it is a new syntax to learn for other developers. So when the repetitive pattern is local to a specific library or not widely used, it is often not worth the effort. Especially if the code in q...
