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 FAA20569; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 05:01:16 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA20702 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 05:01:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from str12.sobor.org (adsl-63-198-183-99.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.198.183.99]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f6E31ET04468 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 05:01:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from quasar.ipa.nw.ru (anza.sobor.org [192.168.123.51]) by str12.sobor.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A1DAC6D2; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 19:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B4FB5BA.81AB2866@quasar.ipa.nw.ru> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:00:10 -0700 From: "Alexander V. Voinov" Organization: Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Max Skaller Cc: "Krishnaswami, Neel" , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A G'Caml question" + additional info References: <3B4FA8C2.57FCDD80@maxtal.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr