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=0.2 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 mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A848BC37 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 05:37:10 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkwBAP8noErLOwGUkWdsb2JhbACbPgEBAQEJCwoHEwS+WoQbBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,329,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="33701169" Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.148]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 04 Sep 2009 05:37:08 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEALMooErLzuai/2dsb2JhbADaRoQbBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,329,1249228800"; d="scan'208";a="499514913" Received: from unknown (HELO hendrix.mega-nerd.net) ([203.206.230.162]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 04 Sep 2009 11:36:56 +0800 Received: from hendrix.mnn (hendrix.mnn [192.168.200.99]) by hendrix.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id A04C5106FD5 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:36:56 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:36:56 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries? Message-Id: <20090904133656.c8a635ac.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <2a1a1a0c0909032024i504ecec4p3938dbb95a6c3ad2@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A9FBF04.1060608@gmail.com> <4AA00863.4060105@lri.fr> <2a1a1a0c0909032024i504ecec4p3938dbb95a6c3ad2@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: caml-list@inria.fr Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml's:01 wrote:01 unix:01 caml-list:01 library:03 library:03 erik:04 erik:04 long:06 standard:07 probably:07 written:07 quite:08 batteries:91 Mike Lin wrote: > Ditto, > Due to the sparsity of OCaml's standard library, many long term users > probably have their own library to do all sorts of little things they need, > and substantial amounts of code written around it. :-( Double ditto. I have quite a large amount of stuff sitting on top of extlib/str/unix. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/