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 RAA06295; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:50:40 +0100 (MET) 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 RAA06350 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:50:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from saul.cis.upenn.edu (SAUL.CIS.UPENN.EDU [158.130.12.4]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1OGocT05960 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:50:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saul.cis.upenn.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id h1OGodqO014212 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:50:39 -0500 (EST) To: caml-list@inria.fr Reply-to: bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml standard library improvement In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:56:00 +1100. <3E5A1660.9020605@ozemail.com.au> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:50:39 EST Message-ID: <14211.1046105439@saul.cis.upenn.edu> From: "Benjamin C. Pierce" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I'm all in favor of improving the standard library, but... 1) I agree that such a project will be most useful if there is some kind of strong unifying vision 2) I suggest looking at the SML Basis Library for ideas -- the people that designed it thought a *lot* about consistent naming and such. (In fact, would it be a bad idea just to *copy* the SML basis APIs verbatim?) 3) I question whether this is actually the most-needed thing... see next message... -- Benjamin ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BENJAMIN C. PIERCE, Professor Dept. of Computer & Information Science bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania +1 215 898-2012 200 South 33rd St. Fax: +1 215 898-0587 Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- 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