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 WAA10644; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:56:06 +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 WAA10593 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:56:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from calmail-cl.berkeley.edu (mailfarm.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.61.106]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3NKu3YM009194 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:56:04 +0200 Received: from [64.162.212.212] (HELO tallman.kefka.frap.net) by calmail-cl.berkeley.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with SMTP id 20104334; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:56:03 -0700 Received: by tallman.kefka.frap.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:54:51 -0700 Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:54:51 -0700 From: Kenneth Knowles To: John Goerzen Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] The Missing Library Message-ID: <20040423205451.GA27396@tallman.kefka.frap.net> References: <20040423185148.GA4434@excelhustler.com> <20040423195206.GA27257@tallman.kefka.frap.net> <20040423202342.GA5962@excelhustler.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040423202342.GA5962@excelhustler.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Miltered: at concorde by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; knowles:99 caml-list:01 2004:99 demonstrate:01 hashtable:01 ocaml:01 config:02 parsers:03 wrote:03 library:03 library:03 stuff:05 stuff:05 functions:05 fri:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 03:23:42PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > But the fact that these libraries exist is, at its heart, a symptom of > the problems with the OCaml standard library. I'm just encouraging the dissenters to cooperate to more thoroughly demonstrate their case, and get a well-design library. I do suggest splitting domain-independent stuff like extended list and hashtable functions from specialized stuff like IMAP and config file parsers. Kenn ------------------- 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