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From: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
To: "Eric C. Cooper" <ecc@cmu.edu>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Future of labels, and ideas for library labelling
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 19:05:20 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AD17B50.12B03D37@ozemail.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AC9FFBD.36DB8DB2@cmu.edu>

"Eric C. Cooper" wrote:

> The label technology is an impressive piece of work -- it seems like a
> very clean extension to the core language and clearly increases the
> expressive power for a certain programming style. But the examples of
> this style that I have seen, namely Tk and Gtk, seem to have been forced
> on us by "foreign" packages.  Would a "native" library need labels as
> badly? 

	Yes, if it were implementing something as 'complex' as a GUI.
Many commercial applications embody much detail (even though they're
not intrinsically 'complex')

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-09 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-31  3:40 [Caml-list] Future of labels Yaron M. Minsky
2001-04-02  3:39 ` [Caml-list] Future of labels, and ideas for library labelling Jacques Garrigue
2001-04-02  7:58   ` Judicael Courant
2001-04-02  8:50     ` Markus Mottl
2001-04-02 10:33     ` kahl
2001-04-03  0:35       ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-04-03  1:36         ` Kipton M Barros
2001-04-03  1:52         ` Patrick M Doane
2001-04-03  3:53           ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-04-03  5:10             ` Patrick M Doane
2001-04-03  9:30               ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-04-03  8:52             ` Xavier Leroy
2001-04-03  9:34               ` Judicael Courant
2001-04-03  9:54               ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-04-03 12:59                 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2001-04-03 13:11                   ` [Caml-list] ocaml, java, rmi and jini Martin Berger
2001-04-03 19:23                     ` Chris Hecker
2001-04-03 20:50                       ` Gerd Stolpmann
2001-04-06  9:40                         ` Sven LUTHER
2001-04-06 20:57                           ` Gerd Stolpmann
2001-04-03 21:06                       ` martinb
2001-04-06 15:03                     ` Xavier Leroy
2001-04-03 14:06                   ` [Caml-list] Future of labels, and ideas for library labelling Jacques Garrigue
2001-04-03 14:12                     ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-04-03 14:42                       ` Claude Marche
2001-04-04 19:18                     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2001-04-03  9:55               ` Ohad Rodeh
2001-04-03 18:06                 ` [Caml-list] Example of Ocaml-syntax problem with ; Mattias Waldau
2001-04-04 15:15                 ` [Caml-list] Suspending threads Ohad Rodeh
2001-04-04 17:28                   ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2001-04-06 13:21                   ` Xavier Leroy
2001-04-03 12:02               ` [Caml-list] Future of labels, and ideas for library labelling Dave Mason
2001-04-03 13:43               ` Francois-Rene Rideau
2001-04-03 14:23                 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-04-03 13:43               ` Frank Atanassow
2001-04-03 13:58               ` Joshua D. Guttman
2001-04-03 16:52               ` Eric C. Cooper
2001-04-09  9:05                 ` John Max Skaller [this message]
2001-04-09  7:29             ` John Max Skaller
2001-04-03  8:07         ` Judicael Courant
2001-04-03  6:55     ` Chris Hecker
2001-04-03 18:13       ` [Caml-list] Generics? Brian Rogoff
2001-04-03 20:12         ` Chris Hecker
2001-04-10 16:48           ` John Max Skaller
2001-04-09  8:11       ` [Caml-list] Future of labels, and ideas for library labelling John Max Skaller
2001-04-09  9:21         ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-04-09 15:06           ` Fergus Henderson
2001-04-10 18:49           ` John Max Skaller
2001-04-09 19:54         ` Chris Hecker
2001-04-10  3:37           ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-04-10  7:42             ` Judicael Courant
2001-04-10  8:25               ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-04-10  8:46               ` Claude Marche
2001-04-10 10:09                 ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-04-10 14:42                   ` Lionnel Maugis
2001-04-10  9:06             ` François-René Rideau
2001-04-11 15:34               ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-04-11 17:48                 ` Dave Mason
2001-04-12 12:39                 ` [Caml-list] How do I define prog1? Mattias Waldau
2001-04-12 14:22                   ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2001-04-12 17:53                     ` William Chesters
2001-04-12 15:15                   ` Sven LUTHER
2001-04-12 16:14                     ` Mattias Waldau
2001-04-12 15:21                   ` Maxence Guesdon
2001-04-12 15:47                   ` Stefan Monnier
2001-04-17 20:04                     ` Chris Hecker
2001-04-10 22:43             ` [Caml-list] Future of labels, and ideas for library labelling Brian Rogoff
2001-04-11  8:29               ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-04-11  9:44                 ` Anton Moscal
2001-04-11 13:16                 ` Didier Remy
2001-04-11 15:11                   ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-04-03  7:27 Arturo Borquez
2001-04-03 16:39 John R Harrison
2001-04-04 16:37 Dave Berry
2001-04-11 10:48 Francois-Rene Rideau
2001-04-17 11:53 Poigné

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