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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>
Cc: Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:18:11 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1168910291.9207.62.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070115221717.GA9982@snarc.org>

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 23:17 +0100, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:23:32PM -0800, Martin Jambon wrote:
> > OCaml is well-enough designed so that there is no "common" syntax
> > extension.
> 
> There ARE common syntax extensions.
> how many people miss a try-except-finally construct ?
> how many people miss a return statement to break the flow of a function.
> etc ..

I don't miss any of those things .. the point being they're 
not so 'common' as you might think.

I'm a Python programmer too, and I never use 'finally' ..
I've never found any use for it.

Felix has return statement .. but then Felix has *statements*:
executable Ocaml is all expressions, so a return statement would
seem out of place.

> I'm not talking about weird extensions that ease the life of grammar
> writter or lambda calculus , etc .. but really the basic one.

One man's nice extensions are weird to another. Many parts of
Ocaml are weird (IMHO :) but at least its a shared weirdness.

-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-16  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-13  5:37 Edgar Friendly
2007-01-13  5:56 ` [Caml-list] " Tom
2007-01-14 17:35   ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-14 17:59     ` ketty
2007-01-14 18:21       ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-14 18:29         ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-13  7:41 ` David Baelde
2007-01-13  9:31   ` ketty
2007-01-14 17:33   ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-14 18:23     ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-14 18:41       ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-14 20:49         ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-14 23:38           ` Gabriel Kerneis
2007-01-15  0:55             ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-15  6:12               ` skaller
2007-01-15  0:05           ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-15  5:59             ` skaller
2007-01-15 20:23             ` Martin Jambon
2007-01-15 21:30               ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-15 22:13                 ` Try finally (was Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features) Daniel Bünzli
2007-01-15 22:27                   ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-15 22:40                     ` Quôc Peyrot
2007-01-15 23:08                       ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-15 22:17               ` [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-16  1:18                 ` skaller [this message]
2007-01-16  2:11                   ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-16  5:18                     ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-16  6:36                       ` skaller
2007-01-16  6:33                     ` skaller
2007-01-16 13:55                     ` Brian Hurt
2007-01-16  9:00                   ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-16 14:14                     ` skaller
2007-01-16 15:00                       ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-16 17:47                         ` skaller
2007-01-16 19:24                           ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-17  3:28                             ` skaller
2007-01-17 11:41                               ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-17 12:53                                 ` Olivier Andrieu
2007-01-17 13:18                                   ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-17 14:09                                 ` skaller
2007-01-16 19:42                           ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-16 21:15                             ` Florian Weimer
2007-01-17  3:46                             ` skaller
2007-01-17 11:50                               ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-15  5:56           ` skaller
2007-01-15  9:35         ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-01-15 18:28           ` Martin Jambon
2007-01-15 19:02             ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-01-14 19:01       ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-14 18:51     ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-14 20:49       ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-15  0:19         ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-20 19:19           ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-20 21:40             ` skaller
2007-01-14 21:47     ` Tom
2007-01-15 10:36 ` Richard Jones
2007-01-15 14:24   ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-16  8:45     ` Hendrik Tews
2007-01-16  9:08       ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-21 17:07         ` [Caml-list] native-code stack backtraces (was: Ocaml compiler features) Xavier Leroy
2007-01-21 18:53           ` Pierre Etchemaïté
2007-01-16  5:21   ` [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features Edgar Friendly
2007-01-16  5:33     ` ketty
2007-01-16  6:00       ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-16  6:10         ` ketty
2007-01-16  5:55     ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-01-16 17:51       ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-16 19:09         ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-16 19:21         ` Brian Hurt
2007-01-16 20:06         ` Jonathan Roewen
2007-01-16 20:13         ` Florian Weimer
2007-01-16  6:51     ` skaller
2007-01-16 18:01       ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-17  2:23         ` skaller
2007-01-16  8:00   ` Florian Hars

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