Re: [Caml-list] Future of labels, and ideas for library labelling

[Poigné <poigne@gmd.de>]

Hello

being out of office I have started to read all the contributions about
labelling and gave up halfway through. I noticed the mail by Filliatre
to which I subscribe without reservation. 

I AM A HAPPY USER OF THE CLASSIC MODE

and so far did not find it necessary to use labels. I should say that I
have written with collegues quite a lot of code as a part of the
compiler and programming system of sE (that is a language that extends
Java by synchronous programming - combining the Esterel, Lustre, and
Statecharts dialects, generating C for instance. By the way, interest
welcome). I extensively use partial evaluation for a rigorous
denotational style semantics for the synchronous sublanguage. In fact I
suspect that I could not have suceeded without partial evaluation (to
comment on another thread). In order not to loose track, a good naming
discipline is necessary (which is probably equivalent to use labels in
this context without, personal view, cluttering the code: how awful to
write ~f: if I know the argument is a function - by position and since I
tend to use names that mean something).

On the other hand, I have programmed quite a substantial gui using the
most elementary Tk-binding. What I did is to built my own little set of
Ocaml functions for hiding Tk. I admit that labels might have helped for
dealing with optional arguments, though I probably would have done the
same. 

Hence a my vote: 

- If you feel you have to add labelling keep it optional.

Axel

PS. This will be my only contribution to the subject

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