From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4BADBC0B for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:52:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from hades.snarc.org (hades.snarc.org [212.85.152.11]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0EIq40G008020 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:52:04 +0100 Received: by hades.snarc.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 44CCB1B482; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:51:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:51:31 +0100 To: Edgar Friendly Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features Message-ID: <20070114185131.GB26213@snarc.org> References: <45A87011.8080203@gmail.com> <53c655920701122341l3b95328clf4e9ee40d5656dde@mail.gmail.com> <45AA6966.8010602@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45AA6966.8010602@gmail.com> X-Warning: Email may contain unsmilyfied humor and/or satire. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: tab@snarc.org (Vincent Hanquez) X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 45AA7BD4.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 compiler:01 compiler:01 ocaml:01 tweaking:01 syntax:01 lacks:01 syntax:01 cheers:01 edgar:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 incompatible:01 seems:03 seems:03 On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:33:26AM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote: > I will agree that I am too eager to "fix" the compiler, and appreciate > the community's help in tempering my inexperience. But I'd like to help > ocaml become a better language, and this seems like a reasonable small > step to start on. Although I disagree with this first step, I think OCaml need a hand in becoming more mainstream. unfortunately, it seems that INRIA is not really interested in making this happened, maybe tweaking syntax and extending the libraries [1]. At the moment, every one seems to have their own standard libraries to extends the deficiency/problems/lacks of the common one, and also a bunch a syntax extensions, that are also incompatible/redundant with each other for most of them. [1] I would certainly prefer to be dead wrong here, but at the moment I'm conforted in this idea. Cheers, -- Vincent Hanquez