From: weis@yquem.inria.fr (Pierre Weis)
To: "Bünzli Daniel" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
Cc: caml-list caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml's formatting libraries
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:13:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071113091334.GB20423@yquem.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B68E6127-94F7-4C42-8D6C-EE613E99E47E@erratique.ch>
> I'd rather have a simple and correct type system.
You have a correct type system. Admittedly, its simplicity can be discussed,
if we consider the many features added to the language that really impact the
type algebra.
The format strings feature is not from this family of new and deep
modification of the type system: it neither impact the type algebra nor is a
late addition (it was introduced more than 10 years ago). Believe me, it is
in essence rock solid and fully type safe.
On the other hand, yes, there is still some work to do to fully support the
new additional feature of positional parameters. I agree, this is not
easy. But no, the format strings are not essentially flawed by the bug
reported here: the new feature implementation will be corrected or the new
feature will be removed.
Best regards,
--
Pierre Weis
INRIA Rocquencourt, http://bat8.inria.fr/~weis/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-13 9:13 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 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-11-10 15:43 ` Bünzli Daniel
2007-11-10 19:13 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-13 9:22 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-13 9:13 ` Pierre Weis [this message]
2007-11-13 8:53 ` Pierre Weis
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