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 AAA07476; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:00:49 +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 AAA07716 for ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:00:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from favie.faith.gr.jp ([61.127.175.250]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f87M0kP23096 for ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:00:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (dhcp7.faith.gr.jp [192.168.1.17]) by favie.faith.gr.jp (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA19611; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 07:00:39 +0900 To: nicolas.george@ens.fr Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Changes in CVS In-Reply-To: <20010906151830.A1400@aimlin> References: <20010906175310C.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <20010906151830.A1400@aimlin> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.2 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <20010908070157Q.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 07:01:57 +0900 From: Jacques Garrigue X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk From: Nicolas George > Le jeudi 06 septembre 2001 =E0 17:53, Jacques Garrigue a =E9crit=A0: > > remove labels in the standard library, > > and switch to (slightly laxist) label mode by default. > = > I am not sure what you mean. Switching to label mode by default is ok = for > me. But removing labels in the standard library means breaking all pro= grams > that use them, if I do not miss somethig. Whereas leaving them means > breaking only the makefiles of programs using the old syntax. I think > adding a "-no-labels" in the "OCFLAGS=3D" line is much less work than = fixing > the code, especially if it uses the commuting arguments fetaure. Sure, this is incompatible for current label mode users. A small degree of compatibility is provided by a StdLabels module. (Only including labels for Array, List and String) The conversion is relatively easy, particularly if you do not use commutation of labels too much. Even for heavy users, this should not be more than about a minute by kloc. The whole point of this change is to have a unique mode satisfying everybody, the -nolabels mode being deprecated for normal use. This comes at a cost, but gives a better integrated language. If you remember the discussion on this list this spring, the option you propose here wouldn't satisfy many users. Best regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- Jacques Garrigue Kyoto University garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac= .jp JG= ------------------- 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