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From: David Teller <David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr>
To: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>
Cc: OCaml List <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Wanted: your feedback on the hierarchy of OCaml Batteries Included
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:23:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1227018213.6170.122.camel@Blefuscu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <218682.78372.qm@web111513.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 05:31 -0800, Dario Teixeira wrote:
> Paraphrasing Einstein, I think the hierarchy should be as flat
> as possible, but no flatter.  For example, I see no reason to
> materialise in the hierarchy the separation between persistent
> and mutable data structures.  The should be a documentation
> issue.  However, and as you noted, there are cases where some
> hierarchisation may remove namespace clutter and allow for
> better code reuse.

Duly noted. As you may see on our candidate replacement hierarchy, we
intend to merge Data.Persistent and Data.Mutable into Data.Containers.

Whether we flatten further remains open to debate.

Thanks,
 David

-- 
David Teller-Rajchenbach
 Security of Distributed Systems
  http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/David.Teller
 Angry researcher: French Universities need reforms, but the LRU act
brings liquidations. 


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-18 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-18  9:56 David Teller
2008-11-18 10:06 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2008-11-18 10:21   ` Zheng Li
2008-11-18 11:22     ` David Teller
2008-11-18 12:52       ` Zheng Li
2008-11-18 14:10       ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2008-11-18 14:19         ` David Teller
2008-11-19  3:06         ` Yaron Minsky
2008-11-19  3:47           ` Till Varoquaux
2008-11-19 10:57           ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-19 18:05             ` Stéphane Glondu
2008-11-20  0:14               ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-18 10:29   ` [Caml-list] " Erkki Seppala
2008-11-18 11:34     ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-11-18 11:47       ` Thomas Gazagnaire
2008-11-18 12:15       ` David Teller
2008-11-18 12:32         ` Richard Jones
2008-11-18 12:56           ` David Teller
2008-11-19 13:38           ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-19 17:37             ` Richard Jones
2008-11-23 10:32               ` Stefano Zacchiroli
     [not found]         ` <9b415f950811180428x2de94a64q6fa92887f8e00705@mail.gmail.com>
2008-11-18 12:51           ` David Teller
2008-12-19 11:00             ` Benedikt Grundmann
2009-01-05 10:40               ` David Teller
2008-11-18 13:24         ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-11-18 14:46           ` David Teller
2008-11-18 12:40       ` David Teller
2008-11-18 13:31         ` Dario Teixeira
2008-11-18 14:23           ` David Teller [this message]
2008-11-18 14:40             ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-19 13:36       ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-19 14:28         ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-11-19 14:45           ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-11-21 12:37     ` Michaël Le Barbier
2008-11-18 11:17   ` David Teller
2008-11-18 12:22     ` Richard Jones
2008-11-18 12:49       ` David Teller
2008-11-18 15:20         ` Richard Jones
2008-11-18 18:17   ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-18 17:51     ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-11-18 22:43       ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-18 18:59     ` Richard Jones
2008-11-18 20:17       ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-18 19:22         ` Richard Jones
2008-11-18 19:50           ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-11-18 21:50             ` Richard Jones
2008-11-19 13:48               ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-19 19:02                 ` Stéphane Glondu
2008-11-18 22:07     ` Alain Frisch
2008-11-18 23:49       ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-18 23:13         ` Alain Frisch
2008-11-19 13:28   ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-18 23:30 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-19  6:29   ` David Teller
2008-11-19  8:36     ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-19  9:46     ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-11-19 20:11       ` Maxence Guesdon
2008-11-20  9:28         ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-11-20 10:33           ` Richard Jones
2008-11-20 10:49             ` open Module (not?) considered harmful Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-20 11:29               ` [Caml-list] " David Allsopp
2008-11-20 11:48                 ` Richard Jones
2008-11-20 17:56                   ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-20 13:01                 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-11-20 13:41                   ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-11-20 16:44                     ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-21  2:56                       ` Stability of exceptions Eliot Handelman
2008-11-21  7:39                         ` [Caml-list] " Daniel Bünzli
2008-11-21  9:52                         ` Christophe TROESTLER
2008-11-20 14:46                 ` [Caml-list] open Module (not?) considered harmful Ashish Agarwal
2008-11-20 17:54                 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-20 11:31               ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-11-23 10:36                 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-20 11:41               ` Richard Jones
2008-11-23 10:38                 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-11-23 11:01                   ` Richard Jones
2008-11-20 12:58             ` [Caml-list] Wanted: your feedback on the hierarchy of OCaml Batteries Included Nicolas Pouillard
2008-11-20 21:12 ` David Teller
2008-11-20 23:18   ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-11-21  9:34     ` David Teller

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