From: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
To: Christophe TROESTLER <debian00@tiscali.be>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] O'Reilly book (was poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:01:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030313180143.B1781@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030313.165312.01038672.debian00@tiscali.be>; from debian00@tiscali.be on Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:53:12PM +0100
> > The appendix of the book is explicitly about ocaml-2.99. Lots of
> > things changed since, [...]
> >
> > Admittedly, I haven't read the book, but my understanding is that this
> > book is based on OCaml 2.x. Is it really such a good idea to publish it
> > as is when OCaml has been at version 3.x for quite some time now?
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to update the English version of book for Caml
> 3.06 ?
Actually, appendix A in the English version was updated to OCaml 3.04,
which is 3.06 minus the polymorphic methods and record fields. It
could be updated to 3.06 without much effort.
Everything else uses 2.04 indeed, but OCaml 2.04 is still a (very
large) subset of 3.06, so everything that is described in the book
still applies to 3.06. And I like the idea that the body of the book
describes and uses a large, stable subset of the language, while some
of the more advanced, less stable features are described separately in
an appendix.
> A useful addition would also be to update the java
> code that displays the solutions to the exercises to work with mozilla
> (only a matter of hours I guess if the LaTeX code is clean).
It's Javascript code, actually, and it is totally impenetrable :-)
Interested Javascript hackers can have a look at
http://caml.inria.fr/oreilly-book/html/videoc.js
If you manage to get it to work under Mozilla, you'll be thanked
profusely.
- Xavier Leroy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-13 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-13 3:35 [Caml-list] poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book Graham Guttocks
2003-03-13 7:35 ` Martin Weber
2003-03-13 9:36 ` MikhailFedotov
2003-03-13 9:48 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-03-13 8:28 ` Shawn Wagner
2003-03-13 8:33 ` Daniel M. Albro
2003-03-13 10:15 ` Michael Schuerig
2003-03-13 15:53 ` [Caml-list] O'Reilly book (was poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book) Christophe TROESTLER
2003-03-13 17:01 ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
2003-03-13 20:05 ` [Caml-list] [OT] Re: O'Reilly book Christophe TROESTLER
2003-03-14 2:02 ` [Caml-list] O'Reilly book (was poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book) Alan Schmitt
2003-03-13 9:32 ` [Caml-list] poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book Richard W.M. Jones
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