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 8C655BC88 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 02:34:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j161YNr8014896 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 02:34:23 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CxbJd-00016j-00; Sun, 06 Feb 2005 01:34:21 +0000 Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:34:21 +0000 To: Thomas Fischbacher Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The boon of static type checking Message-ID: <20050206013420.GA4137@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <891bd33905020213315a2ebb18@mail.gmail.com> <877e9a170502031856175260c8@mail.gmail.com> <877e9a17050203185674680413@mail.gmail.com> <200502041026.56107.jon@jdh30.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4205741F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 wrote:01 naming:01 ocaml:01 perl's:01 ocaml:01 notepad:01 structures:01 checking:01 data:02 data:02 ugly:03 static:03 nested:04 marketing:93 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 Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:02:42AM +0100, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > If I were to limit myself to naming only one ugly side of ocaml which I > would like to see changed, this would be the unavailability of automatical > printers for complicated composite nested data structures. That is, an > equivalent of perl's Data::Dumper. Try: http://merjis.com/developers/dumper It's a Data::Dumper equivalent for OCaml. Rich. -- Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd. Merjis - web marketing and technology - http://merjis.com Team Notepad - intranets and extranets for business - http://team-notepad.com