From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA06265; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:38:41 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA05613; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:38:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6S9cbSH021739; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:38:38 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.200] (ppp205-61.lns1.syd3.internode.on.net [203.122.205.61]) by smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i6S9cT4Y019582; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:08:30 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: lazyness in ocaml (was : [Caml-list] kprintf with user formatters) From: skaller Reply-To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net To: Pierre Weis Cc: daniel.buenzli@epfl.ch, caml-list In-Reply-To: <200407280913.LAA04589@pauillac.inria.fr> References: <200407280913.LAA04589@pauillac.inria.fr> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1091007509.5870.912.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 28 Jul 2004 19:38:29 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4107741D.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; lazyness:01 caml-list:01 kprintf:01 formatters:01 sourceforge:01 2004:99 pierre:01 weis:01 9660:01 glebe:01 ocaml:01 nsw:01 labels:01 constructors:01 snail:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 19:13, Pierre Weis wrote: > What I propose is a smoother interaction with the rest of the language > with the (re)-introduction of lazy constructors, lazy labels and a new > typing (and compilation) rule to facilitate the use of lazy functions. OK: I said this looked dangerous, but the resulting discussion convinces me that it could be worth it, since the guarrantees I thought might be broken didn't really exist in the first place. -- John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net voice: 061-2-9660-0850, snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners