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 0BCCABC88 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 03:30:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.syd.swiftdsl.com.au (smtp.syd.swiftdsl.com.au [218.214.224.138]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with SMTP id j162UHr8027900 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 03:30:18 +0100 Received: (qmail 6547 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2005 02:30:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO coltrane.mega-nerd.net) (218.214.64.136) by smtp.syd.swiftdsl.com.au with SMTP; 6 Feb 2005 02:30:24 -0000 Received: from coltrane (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by coltrane.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B0007AD8 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 13:30:16 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 13:30:16 +1100 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The boon of static type checking Message-Id: <20050206133016.7b804bbd.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <20050206013420.GA4137@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <891bd33905020213315a2ebb18@mail.gmail.com> <877e9a170502031856175260c8@mail.gmail.com> <877e9a17050203185674680413@mail.gmail.com> <200502041026.56107.jon@jdh30.plus.com> <20050206013420.GA4137@furbychan.cocan.org> Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42058139.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 naming:01 ocaml:01 perl's:01 ocaml:01 nospam:98 structures:01 alan:01 checking:01 data:02 data:02 library:03 ugly:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:34:21 +0000 Richard Jones wrote: > 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. Oh, that looks nice. Any chance of getting that in the standard library? ;-) Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo nospam@mega-nerd.com (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." -- Alan Kay