From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: weis Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id BAA15591 for caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 01:33:17 +0200 (MET DST) Resent-Message-Id: <200004092333.BAA15591@pauillac.inria.fr> Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA29131 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 04:42:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ftp.filemaker.com (ftp.filemaker.com [192.35.50.27]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA07746 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 04:42:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from imap.filemaker.com (imap.filemaker.com [17.184.4.101]) by ftp.filemaker.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA06756 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 19:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [17.184.5.111] ([17.184.5.111]) by imap.filemaker.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with SMTP id TAA05978 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 19:42:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200004070242.TAA05978@imap.filemaker.com> Subject: Re: to have labels or not Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 19:44:12 -0700 x-sender: hao-yang_wang@mail.filemaker.com x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, January 22, 1998 From: Hao-yang Wang cc: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Resent-From: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Resent-Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 01:33:17 +0200 Resent-To: caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Brian Rogoff wrote: >John Skaller already answered your points, and anyways since having two >libraries is in no way an elegant solution I'll leave it alone. I still >think that having two modes makes it harder to explain OCaml and much >harder for me to promote it in industry to my colleagues, which is my main >concern. Well, there have already been lots of compilers with two modes, for C and C++. Both C and C++ are widely accepted in industry. Cheers, Hao-yang Wang