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 TAA19128; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:08:37 +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 TAA19094 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:08:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dux.ru (ns.dux.ru [193.125.210.65]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h38H8XX28543 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:08:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dux.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dux.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h38HFu6X062674 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:15:56 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from snob@snob.spb.ru) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by dux.ru (8.12.6/8.12.1/Submit) with UUCP id h38HFurR062673 for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:15:56 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from snob@snob.spb.ru) Received: (qmail 1794 invoked by uid 0); 8 Apr 2003 16:54:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO athlon.snob.spb.ru) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 8 Apr 2003 16:54:58 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Nickolay Semyonov-Kolchin To: Brian Hurt Subject: Re: [Caml-list] single-line comment request Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:38:42 +0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200304082038.42129.snob@snob.spb.ru> X-Spam: no; 0.00; nickolay:01 snob:01 spb:01 caml-list:01 clue:01 ocaml's:01 ocaml:01 flame:02 purely:02 coding:03 wrote:03 08,:03 ugly:05 mean:05 brian:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tuesday 08 April 2003 21:08, Brian Hurt wrote: > > > > > > I am not seriously opposed to this, I just don't see the value. > > > > 1) This extension won't broke existing source code. Currently, we can= 't > > use '##' anywhere in Ocaml. > > Yep. Checked that before posting. It does mean you can't run your oca= ml > code through the C preprocessor- although I have no clue why you'd want= to > do that. :) Run code through prepreprocessor, for removing '##' before running throug= h=20 C-preprocessor. > > > 2) This is programming-style extension. I.e. if you don't like don't = use > > it. > > If I'm working alone, this works. If I'm working with other people, or= on > other people's code, this may not be an option. > Coding standards will help. [Larry Wall flame skipped] > > Again, this extension is purely stylish. > > Actually, personally I think ## is ugly, in that it looks entirely unli= ke > Ocaml's current comment-start sequence of (*. At least with C++, /* an= d > // are similiar *visually*. Setup color-scheme in your favourite editor to make comments similar=20 *visually*. P.S. =09This moved fast from technical field to religious.=20 Nickolay ------------------- 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