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From: Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler+ocaml@umons.ac.be>
To: padator@wanadoo.fr
Cc: OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] pattern matching and records vs tuples
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:00:02 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090414.180002.1031635372486642254.Christophe.Troestler+ocaml@umons.ac.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87skkbuxx8.fsf@aryx.cs.uiuc.edu>

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:12:19 -0500, Yoann Padioleau wrote:
> 
> I've found that while records provide advantages over tuples, 
> they also have disadvantages when it comes to evolution issues. 
> If I decide to evolve code using a tuple type, for instance adding
> new information and so extend a 4-uple in a 5-uple, then the compiler
> will tell me all the places that I need to update, which is good.
> If I use records instead, and have 4 fields, and I want to add again
> some new information in a new field, then the way the compiler works
> right now will not help me at all. 

See http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/31

Cheers,
ChriS


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-14 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-14 14:12 Yoann Padioleau
2009-04-14 16:00 ` Christophe TROESTLER [this message]
2009-04-14 16:40 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-14 16:58   ` Yoann Padioleau
2009-04-14 20:01     ` Christophe Raffalli
2009-04-15  0:44 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-04-15  1:46   ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2009-04-15  2:37     ` Yaron Minsky
2009-04-15  2:40     ` Ashish Agarwal
2009-04-16 16:05     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-16 16:59       ` David Allsopp
2009-04-17  0:26         ` Jacques Garrigue
2009-04-17 21:12         ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-15  7:41   ` blue storm
2009-04-15  9:30     ` Martin Jambon
2009-04-15 11:01       ` Yaron Minsky
2009-04-15 12:04         ` Martin Jambon

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