From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA01857 for caml-red; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 09:38:23 +0200 (MET DST) 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 LAA15895 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:46:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from suburbia.net (suburbia.net [203.4.184.1]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e969kij21837 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:46:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by suburbia.net (Postfix, from userid 110) id 74E8F6C4E6; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:46:35 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: WWW Page of Team PLClub (Re: ICFP programming contest: results) In-Reply-To: "from malc at Oct 6, 2000 01:19:29 am" To: malc Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:46:35 +1100 (EST) Cc: eijiro_sumii@anet.ne.jp, caml-list@inria.fr X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL78 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20001006094635.74E8F6C4E6@suburbia.net> From: proff@suburbia.net (Julian Assange) Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr > But can someone of your team describe the rationale behind usage of arrays > as representation of matrices/vectors, likewise it will be also intersting > to hear corresponding rationale behind record based version of Caml's R Us > implementation. > > -- > mailto:malc@pulsesoft.com There's no use of Ocaml's objective features either. Jerome, can you comment on that? The classes of 3d shapes were represented as types, for instance. As the `O' in Ocaml, when do you think it is appropriate to use the objective style? Cheers, Julian.