From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D576BC88 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:27:45 +0100 (CET) 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 j14MRjSj023732 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:27:45 +0100 Received: from poincare (mail@poincare.swapping.umh.ac.be [10.102.100.22]) by hedwig1.umh.ac.be (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j14MVCYD241852; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:31:12 +0100 Received: from poincare ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=trch) by poincare with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CxBvS-0005tI-00; Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:27:42 +0100 Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:27:42 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <20050204.232742.18510019.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The boon of static type checking From: Christophe TROESTLER In-Reply-To: References: <877e9a17050203185674680413@mail.gmail.com> <200502041026.56107.jon@jdh30.plus.com> Organization: Universite de Mons-Hainaut (http://math.umh.ac.be/an/) X-Spook: Adriatic AVN ICE blackjack Maple Sundevil BATF Merlin security ASLET 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 4.2rc1 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 concorde with ID 4203F6E1.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 umh:01 wrote:01 hash:01 vectors:01 vectors:01 ...:98 structures:01 structures:01 functions:01 checking:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > > When I do algorithmically involved stuff, I frequently pretty soon > reach the stage where I pass around structures of hash tables of > structures and vectors of structures of vectors of numbers, say. I > personally did experience it as painful to have to write specialized > print functions for stuff like that. [...] To Camlp4 knowledgeable people : is Camlp4 able to automatically generate such printers ? ChriS