* re: [Caml-list] option-type (was Re: We need a rich standard library distributed with OCaml, really)
@ 2015-08-27 21:57 Raoul Duke
2015-08-27 22:08 ` Oliver Bandel
2015-08-27 22:12 ` Oliver Bandel
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From: Raoul Duke @ 2015-08-27 21:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Oliver Bandel; +Cc: OCaml
> It started me thinking about my code, seeing option-type not as
> something strange, that sometimes makes sense, but as something,
> which is really great and might be used more frequently ...
yikes.
here's hoping the dev world takes it to heart *some day* :-(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare#cite_note-19
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* Re: [Caml-list] option-type (was Re: We need a rich standard library distributed with OCaml, really)
2015-08-27 21:57 [Caml-list] option-type (was Re: We need a rich standard library distributed with OCaml, really) Raoul Duke
@ 2015-08-27 22:08 ` Oliver Bandel
2015-08-27 22:12 ` Oliver Bandel
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From: Oliver Bandel @ 2015-08-27 22:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: caml-list
...you should click on the link to the paper... :P
Zitat von Raoul Duke <raould@gmail.com> (Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:57:13 -0700)
>> It started me thinking about my code, seeing option-type not as
>> something strange, that sometimes makes sense, but as something,
>> which is really great and might be used more frequently ...
>
> yikes.
>
> here's hoping the dev world takes it to heart *some day* :-(
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare#cite_note-19
>
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* Re: [Caml-list] option-type (was Re: We need a rich standard library distributed with OCaml, really)
2015-08-27 21:57 [Caml-list] option-type (was Re: We need a rich standard library distributed with OCaml, really) Raoul Duke
2015-08-27 22:08 ` Oliver Bandel
@ 2015-08-27 22:12 ` Oliver Bandel
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From: Oliver Bandel @ 2015-08-27 22:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: caml-list
What do you mean?
None is a Null-Reference?
Zitat von Raoul Duke <raould@gmail.com> (Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:57:13 -0700)
>> It started me thinking about my code, seeing option-type not as
>> something strange, that sometimes makes sense, but as something,
>> which is really great and might be used more frequently ...
>
> yikes.
>
> here's hoping the dev world takes it to heart *some day* :-(
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare#cite_note-19
>
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