From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Patterns that evaluate
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:57:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702150357.36091.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070215.092632.112616570.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
On Thursday 15 February 2007 00:26, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> As with any extension, an important question with views is whether
> they should be in the language, as in F#, or supported by the
> preprocessor as you did. After all, pattern-matching in Scheme is
> entirely based on macros, and people are perfectly happy with
> that. Why is it not the case in ML? Because, thanks to typing, we can
> check exhaustivity and overlapping, and use this information to detect
> error and optimize compilation. Unfortunately, views do not allow
> that...
Actually, I believe F# implements that in some form.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
OCaml for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-15 4:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-13 22:04 Jacques Carette
2007-02-13 22:07 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-02-14 0:10 ` Jacques Carette
2007-02-14 18:20 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-02-14 18:55 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-02-14 19:10 ` Denis Bueno
2007-02-14 19:11 ` Jacques Carette
2007-02-14 19:25 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-02-14 20:30 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-02-14 21:05 ` Jon Harrop
2007-02-14 21:33 ` Jacques Carette
2007-02-14 22:34 ` Martin Jambon
2007-02-15 0:26 ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-02-15 3:57 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2007-02-15 22:43 ` Don Syme
2007-02-14 20:29 ` Nathaniel Gray
2007-02-14 21:10 ` Jacques Carette
2007-02-15 3:53 ` skaller
2007-02-15 13:41 ` Jacques Carette
2007-02-15 14:10 ` skaller
2007-02-15 20:43 ` Nathaniel Gray
2007-03-07 11:15 ` Oliver Bandel
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