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 WAA19450; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:25:59 +0200 (MET DST) 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 WAA19453 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:25:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.44.193]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f6OKPwb20709 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:25:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from luther@localhost) by dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA20641; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:26:16 +0200 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:26:16 +0200 From: Sven To: Miles Egan Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] a reckless proposal Message-ID: <20010724222616.D20608@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> References: <20010724110817.A35216@caddr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010724110817.A35216@caddr.com>; from miles@caddr.com on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:08:17AM -0700 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:08:17AM -0700, Miles Egan wrote: > This approach has, in my mind, two advantages: > 1. The object system becomes more generally useful. > 2. A confusing and non-orthogonal feature of ocaml is subsumed into > another, more generally useful and flexible feature. But object are more heavyweight than plain record, which are, if i am not wrong, just named tuples. Friendly, Sven Luter ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr