From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729A4BC6B for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:56:34 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAMINJ0fAXQInh2dsb2JhbACOYAIBCAop X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,348,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3846592" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 30 Oct 2007 18:56:34 +0100 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9UHuXJe002844 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:56:34 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAACAMJ0fLENaHn2dsb2JhbACOYAIBAQcEBgkIGA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,348,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="18776417" Received: from ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.135]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 30 Oct 2007 18:56:32 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAHMLJ0d5LGK+/2dsb2JhbAAM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,348,1188743400"; d="scan'208";a="177876724" Received: from ppp121-44-98-190.lns10.syd6.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.201]) ([121.44.98.190]) by ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 31 Oct 2007 04:26:24 +1030 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Which syntax to teach ? From: skaller To: Edgar Friendly Cc: Brian Hurt , caml-list@inria.fr, Chung-chieh Shan In-Reply-To: <47276500.3050501@gmail.com> References: <1193225773.3612.27.camel@Blefuscu> <471F7F7B.9040905@fmf.uni-lj.si> <666572260710241205x19edbd4ar840811b1d7a7315f@mail.gmail.com> <5i2kv4-hmj.ln1@mantle.rutgers.edu> <47275E10.4070705@janestcapital.com> <47276500.3050501@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:56:23 +1100 Message-Id: <1193766983.7594.15.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 47277051.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; syntax:01 functors:01 functors:01 functor:01 edgar:98 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 perhaps:05 brian:05 problem:05 tue:06 specify:06 missing:07 On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 12:08 -0500, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Brian Hurt wrote: > > Chung-chieh Shan wrote: > > > >> Any tips on how (and perhaps how not) to teach functors? The problem teaching functors is that the essential feature of functors is missing -- a functor is a structure preserving map but there's no way to specify any structure other than in comments. -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net