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 mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 908A5BC6D for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:54:53 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CADq2q0fUVZgL/2dsb2JhbACrfw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,320,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="7813819" Received: from hades.snarc.org ([212.85.152.11]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 08 Feb 2008 10:54:53 +0100 Received: by hades.snarc.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D2FC11B482; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:54:51 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:54:51 +0100 To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] Exceptionless error management, take 2 Message-ID: <20080208095451.GB582@snarc.org> References: <1202396482.6084.5.camel@Blefuscu> <20080208.001729.233402575.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> <200802071522.28338.jon@ffconsultancy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200802071522.28338.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Warning: Email may contain unsmilyfied humor and/or satire. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) From: tab@snarc.org (Vincent Hanquez) X-Spam: no; 0.00; variants:01 polymorphic:01 polymorphic:01 beginners:01 beginners:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 enumerate:01 variant:02 variant:02 argument:02 thu:05 anyway:05 i'd:06 vincent:07 On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:22:28PM +0000, Jon Harrop wrote: > Yes, that's what I thought. I'd also add that the argument that beginners > might be put off this approach if it uses advanced features like polymorphic > variants is moot because beginners won't be using this anyway. > > Indeed, I think it would be valuable to enumerate exactly who might be using > this. what about explaining WHY using polymorphic variant is much better than using normal variant ? -- Vincent Hanquez