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 SAA01258; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:01:46 +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 SAA03940 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:01:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2DH1hf06319; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:01:43 +0100 (MET) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA03972; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:01:43 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:01:43 +0100 From: Xavier Leroy To: Christophe TROESTLER Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] O'Reilly book (was poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book) Message-ID: <20030313180143.B1781@pauillac.inria.fr> References: <20030313073503.GD372@phaeton.entropie.net> <001301c2e943$ff12fbb0$a917a8c0@merann.ru> <20030313184848G.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <20030313.165312.01038672.debian00@tiscali.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20030313.165312.01038672.debian00@tiscali.be>; from debian00@tiscali.be on Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:53:12PM +0100 X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 introductory:99 admittedly:01 3.06:01 3.06,:01 3.06.:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 ocaml-:01 polymorphic:01 explicitly:03 subset:03 3.04,:03 separately:05 uses:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > > 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 ------------------- 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