From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml's formatting libraries
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:58:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711101458.04047.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92C50802-AFEE-4CD4-9F47-FBC9BCABC7A1@erratique.ch>
On Saturday 10 November 2007 14:32, Bünzli Daniel wrote:
> A question I have is why caml's formatting libraries were not
> deprecated in favor of an implementation using Danvy's functional
> unparsing [1]. This approach doesn't require an extension to the type
> system and if I read correctly these results [2] it seems at least as
> efficient as the current implementation. Scanf seems also doable [3].
Functional unparsing requires a lot more code, produces worse error messages,
is much harder to learn, is incompatible with the excellent Format module,
and the number of OCaml programs performance bound by these advanced printf
constructs is negligible.
I'd much rather see effort put into visualization and GUI tools rather than
ASCII text tools...
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-10 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-08 14:17 Search for the smallest possible possible Ocaml segfault Till Varoquaux
2007-11-08 15:00 ` [Caml-list] " Jean-Christophe Filliâtre
2007-11-08 15:17 ` Till Varoquaux
2007-11-08 15:55 ` Adrien
2007-11-08 16:05 ` Alain Frisch
2007-11-08 16:30 ` Feature request (was Re: [Caml-list] Search for the smallest possible possible Ocaml segfault....) Martin Jambon
2007-11-08 18:23 ` Martin Jambon
2007-11-08 16:07 ` [Caml-list] Search for the smallest possible possible Ocaml segfault Jeremy Yallop
2007-11-08 16:11 ` Jeremy Yallop
2007-11-08 16:17 ` Till Varoquaux
2007-11-08 17:02 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2007-11-08 17:10 ` Till Varoquaux
2007-11-08 17:02 ` Pascal Zimmer
2007-11-08 17:12 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-08 17:11 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-08 17:13 ` Zheng Li
2007-11-08 17:55 ` [Caml-list] STOP (was: Search for the smallest possible possible Ocaml segfault) Xavier Leroy
2007-11-08 18:11 ` Tom Primožič
2007-11-08 18:23 ` [Caml-list] STOP Robert Fischer
2007-11-08 19:01 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2007-11-08 18:31 ` [Caml-list] STOP (was: Search for the smallest possible possible Ocaml segfault) Till Varoquaux
2007-11-08 19:06 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-09 18:09 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-10 14:32 ` OCaml's formatting libraries Bünzli Daniel
2007-11-10 14:58 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2007-11-10 15:43 ` [Caml-list] " Bünzli Daniel
2007-11-10 19:13 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-13 9:22 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-13 9:13 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-13 8:53 ` Pierre Weis
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