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 NAA02116; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:17:56 +0100 (MET) 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 NAA01949 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:17:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from gwsmtp.thomson-csf.com (gwsmtp.thomson-csf.com [195.101.39.226]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g15CH8H14860 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:17:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from thomplex.thomson-csf.com (200.3.2.2) by gwsmtp.thomson-csf.com (NPlex 5.1.053) id 3C5F7E4B0000DB3F for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:12:44 +0100 Received: from thomplex.thomson-csf.com (200.3.2.2) by thomplex.thomson-csf.com (NPlex 5.1.036) id 3C5E63D9000295B2 for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:06:14 +0100 Received: from bgxplex3.bgx.airsys.thomson-csf.com (1.38.9.153) by bgxplex.bgx.airsys.thomson-csf.com (NPlex 5.1.053) id 3C500DD0000211AE for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:12:14 +0100 Received: from lully.bgx.airsys.thomson-csf.com (187.150.3.12) by bgxplex3.bgx.airsys.thomson-csf.com (NPlex 5.1.053) id 3C557B3F0000D80C for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:20:40 +0100 Received: from af_mara by lully.bgx.airsys.thomson-csf.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16Y4Ra-0003Qf-00 for ; Tue, 05 Feb 2002 13:11:26 +0100 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:11:26 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me_Marant?= To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Syntax Changes in OCaml Message-ID: <20020205131126.A13179@fr.thalesgroup.com> Mail-Followup-To: caml-list@inria.fr References: <001701c1add4$f5098b80$210148bf@dylan> <20020205112335.GB25187@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020205112335.GB25187@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at>; from markus@oefai.at on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:23:35PM +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 movi= ng > > target language... >=20 > There may be a misunderstanding here: the problem with the recent chang= es, > even if they were rather innocuous, is that you really have to adapt yo= ur > 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, --=20 J=E9r=F4me Marant ------------------- 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