From: "Alexander V. Voinov" <avv@quasar.ipa.nw.ru>
To: John Max Skaller <skaller@maxtal.com.au>
Cc: "Krishnaswami, Neel" <neelk@cswcasa.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A G'Caml question" + additional info
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:00:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B4FB5BA.81AB2866@quasar.ipa.nw.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B4FA8C2.57FCDD80@maxtal.com.au>
John Max Skaller wrote:
>
> "Krishnaswami, Neel" wrote:
>
> > Permit me to disagree. I find nearly all of OCaml's features highly
> > useful and orthogonal, and I am only working on medium size projects.
>
> I don't find that is entirely true.
> First, there is quite a bit of sugar, such as fun/function/match,
> if then else vs. matching.
...
> I'm NOT complaining, just disagreeing.
> In my current project, I've been sticking to the basic
> feature set. But I'm stronly tempted to switch to polymorphic
> variants, because they'd provide much better typing for
> my application. ....
And in general, redundancy is certainly not an ontological evil when it
is properly structured. Otherwise we wouldn't make any use of poetry.
Alexander
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-14 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-11 22:23 Krishnaswami, Neel
2001-07-11 22:47 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-07-12 9:37 ` Markus Mottl
2001-07-14 2:04 ` John Max Skaller
2001-07-14 3:00 ` Alexander V. Voinov [this message]
2001-07-14 15:00 ` John Max Skaller
2001-07-11 23:10 Krishnaswami, Neel
2001-07-12 0:08 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-07-12 21:30 Krishnaswami, Neel
2001-07-13 9:34 ` Markus Mottl
2001-07-13 13:12 Krishnaswami, Neel
2001-07-13 13:35 ` Markus Mottl
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