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From: "Jérôme Marant" <jerome.marant@fr.thalesgroup.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Syntax Changes in OCaml
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:11:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020205131126.A13179@fr.thalesgroup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020205112335.GB25187@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at>; from markus@oefai.at on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:23:35PM +0100

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:23:35PM +0100, Markus Mottl wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Feb 2002, dbmcclain wrote:
> > But this greater discussion has me wondering about whether you are
> > talking of more egregious changes to the language syntax.... If so,
> > it will certainly push me as a user to consider other alternatives. I
> > don't wish to spend my time rewriting old code to keep up with a moving
> > target language...
> 
> There may be a misunderstanding here: the problem with the recent changes,
> even if they were rather innocuous, is that you really have to adapt your
> sources. At least for me this was not a big deal, because I had mostly
> avoided labels so far, but it would be a nightmare if large parts of
> the syntax changed.

  Isn't the -nolabels option here for backward compatibility?

  Cheers,

-- 
Jérôme Marant
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-05 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-04 23:37 dbmcclain
2002-02-05 11:23 ` Markus Mottl
2002-02-05 12:01   ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-02-05 12:14     ` Pixel
2002-02-05 12:36     ` Markus Mottl
2002-02-05 14:02     ` Doug Bagley
2002-02-05 18:12       ` Remi VANICAT
2002-02-05 12:11   ` Jérôme Marant [this message]
2002-02-05 12:22 ` Jacques Garrigue

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