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 XAA14560; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:46:10 +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 XAA15013; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:46:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from gatekeeper.elmer.external.excelhustler.com (gatekeeper.excelhustler.com [68.99.114.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3NLk7YM016653; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:46:08 +0200 Received: from chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (unknown [192.168.0.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com", Issuer "excelhustler.com" (not verified)) by gatekeeper.elmer.external.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63547E0202; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:46:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9165C006; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:46:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wile.internal.excelhustler.com (wile.internal.excelhustler.com [192.168.1.34]) by chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 024105C005; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:46:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: by wile.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EB3F7704F; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:46:06 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:46:06 -0500 From: John Goerzen To: Maxence Guesdon Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] The Missing Library Message-ID: <20040423214606.GH6783@excelhustler.com> References: <20040423185148.GA4434@excelhustler.com> <20040423195206.GA27257@tallman.kefka.frap.net> <20040423202342.GA5962@excelhustler.com> <20040423223611.33ef1c08@haddock.max.fr> <20040423211003.GD6783@excelhustler.com> <20040423231204.1576c96b@haddock.max.fr> <20040423231831.5510656c@haddock.max.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040423231831.5510656c@haddock.max.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-Scanned-By: clamscan at chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com 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; caml-list:01 2004:99 maxence:01 guesdon:01 featureful:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 caml:01 0200,:01 thread:02 thread:02 e-mailing:96 wrote:03 library:03 library:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:18:31PM +0200, Maxence Guesdon wrote: > > > > You view it as a problem that some in the OCaml community would like to > > > see a more featureful and easy to use standard library? Why? > > > > This has already been discussed last month, see this thread > > http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200404/msg00045.html > > Sorry, the real start of the whole discussion is here: > http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200403/msg00091.html Got it. We seem to be e-mailing past each other a bit here. Anyway, I've been reading that thread and haven't really seen anyone defending the standard library yet. I found this message particularly compelling: http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200403/msg00166.html And Xavier's reply: http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200403/msg00171.html Which, if I may boil several pages down into a few characters, seems to say "We know it sucks, but don't have time to fix it quickly." That does not translate, in my mind, to "your complaints are invalid", which is what you seem to be saying. So I still don't understand where you're coming from. All of which, though, is somewhat beside the point. How are we going to *fix* it? -- John ------------------- 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