From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 231D0BC3F for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:02:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i9TD2UcU002507 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:02:30 +0200 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 PAA08537 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:02:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hedwig1.umh.ac.be (hedwig2.umh.ac.be [193.190.193.73]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i9TD2TO6011931 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:02:30 +0200 Received: from poincare (wigner.swapping.umh.ac.be [10.102.100.18]) by hedwig1.umh.ac.be (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9TD48EL659578; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:04:14 +0200 Received: from poincare ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=trch) by poincare with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CNWNv-00014i-00; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:01:39 +0200 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:01:03 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <20041029.150103.131919191.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> To: Andrej.Bauer@andrej.com Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: replacing Mathematica was: Polymorphic pretty printing From: Christophe TROESTLER In-Reply-To: <41815A52.3040003@andrej.com> References: <4180D736.2020606@andrej.com> <20041028.151108.108534348.debian00@tiscali.be> <41815A52.3040003@andrej.com> Organization: Universite de Mons-Hainaut (http://www.umh.ac.be/math/an/) X-Spook: munitions 22nd SAS BROMURE terrorism number key CNCIS strategic INS Pine Gap HAMASMOIS X-Blessing: Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Pema Siddhi Hum X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux (http://www.linux.org/) X-Mailer-URL: http://www.mew.org/ X-Mailer: Mew version 4.1 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41823F66.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41823F65.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 replacing:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 umh:01 andrej:01 andrej:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 toplevel:01 ocaml:01 ...:98 polymorphic:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Andrej Bauer wrote: > > Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > > > > About the original thread, "polymorphic pretty printing", it would be > > nice if folks at INRIA could give indications on what they think the > > better solution is -- it would be nice if it could be made independent > > of possible changes in the toplevel code. > > [...] the pretty printer must know something about the > representation of types and values. That's the purpose of Ourcometree. The thing one would like to avoid is dependence on the default pretty printing function -- OCaml implementers may want to change it and we should not have to worry! :) ChriS