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 VAA15939; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:09:04 +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 VAA15935 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:09:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from madiran.inria.fr (madiran.inria.fr [128.93.8.77]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g6AJ92n07787; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:09:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (madiran.inria.fr [128.93.8.77]) by madiran.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FAFBA78B0; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:09:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:09:02 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <20020710.210902.730554487.Jun.Furuse@inria.fr> To: alex@baretta.com Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] productivity improvement From: "Jun P.FURUSE" In-Reply-To: <3D2C8378.60604@baretta.com> References: <200207082014.g68KE0n02894@orchestra.cs.caltech.edu> <3D2C57B2.4010907@ozemail.com.au> <3D2C8378.60604@baretta.com> X-URL: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~furuse/ X-Face: %NBEt80q,?D$3WNc|UEDB(`B%4yRMn~m!-wQF`!QA@=cZ~?MZJwomF~)69N/W6e/n1),d X-Mailer: Mew version 2.2 on XEmacs 21.4.6 (Common Lisp) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hello, > Just today I have found a counterexample where C does a > better job than O'Caml--at least within the context of my > understanding of and ability with the two languages. [..] > I was not able to figure out an easy way to do this in > O'Caml. Of course, I could have used ocamllex and ocamlyacc > to define a lexer and a parser, but what I really needed was > a scanf function. Ah, you should have waited for few days. The module Scanf is available in the next O'Caml version 3.05, which will be distributed soon... - Jun ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners