From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA15322; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:56:29 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA15327 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:56:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA27900 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:42:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from estelle.ath.cena.fr (estelle.ath.cena.fr [143.196.125.4]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f3AEgSn09151 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:42:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from roger.ath.cena.fr (cop.ath.cena.fr [143.196.127.2]) by estelle.ath.cena.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id QAA01913 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:43:09 +0200 Received: from somewhere in cena ... Message-ID: <3AD31BD3.B185F7CC@ath.cena.fr> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:42:27 +0200 From: Lionnel Maugis Organization: cena X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Future of labels, and ideas for library labelling References: <20010410123756H.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <3AD2B970.BEB88A8@lri.fr> <15058.51287.829349.768975@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20010410190947P.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I'd like to stress a simple user's viewpoint regarding the evolutions of Ocaml, namely to try to Keep It Simple, Sirs. Please. We've been using ocaml since 1995 since it enables us to achieves a fairly good balance of clean and efficient code: modular, reusable, type checked. (Btw, many thanks to the excellent job done by Xavier and his team !) With all its new features, we would love to see the learning curve and verbosity be kept at a reasonable level. Although Ocaml includes advanced features such as lazy structures, classes, labels, stream parsers, parameterized modules, to name a few, these are not of mandatory use when learning the core language. Please to not repell future Ocaml users with mandatory features that may be difficult to grasp to newcomers. (We do not all work at Inria) As a research language, Ocaml will evolve, but thank you again for taking into account users with various skill levels, and for resisting to the need to add things. - Lionnel Maugis Division Routes, Flux et Modélisation Centre d'Etudes de la Navigation Aérienne 1 rue champagne, Athis-Mons ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr