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=AWL 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 AF758BC69 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 06:53:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pih-relay06.plus.net (pih-relay06.plus.net [212.159.14.133]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4C4rQ2o032405 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 06:53:26 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by pih-relay06.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Hmjbh-0005m5-Sx for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Sat, 12 May 2007 05:53:26 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Custom operators in the revised syntax Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 05:48:01 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr References: <200705111537.32561.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <6f9f8f4a0705110752t6a60bcfer407dbc7b5e7f6c1e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6f9f8f4a0705110752t6a60bcfer407dbc7b5e7f6c1e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline To: "Undisclosed.Recipients": ; Message-Id: <200705120548.01155.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 46454846.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; syntax:01 ocaml:01 overloading:01 vectors:01 matrices:01 fsharp:01 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 functions:01 revised:02 library:03 expressions:04 efficient:07 mathematical:07 On Friday 11 May 2007 15:52, Loup Vaillant wrote: > What exactly is more difficult (or less convinient) in Ocaml once you > quit template metaprogramming? Lack of operator overloading makes many mathematical expressions more tedious to write. Lack of template metaprogramming makes it harder to write efficient library functions to handle low-dimensional vectors and matrices. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. The F#.NET Journal http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/fsharp_journal/?e