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 JAA25775; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:28:43 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 JAA25614 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:28:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from grisu.bik-gmbh.de (In-Planung---------X.BIK-GmbH.de [212.12.55.66] (may be forged)) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9I7SeD01283 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:28:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hars.de (prony.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.133]) by grisu.bik-gmbh.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9I7SLU8094049; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:28:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from florian@hars.de) Message-ID: <3DAFB80E.9080605@hars.de> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:28:14 +0200 From: Florian Hars User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: climb CC: "caml-list@inria.fr" Subject: [Caml-list] Re: how to start References: <20021017170005.69C641C638D0C@sm3.163.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk climb wrote: > Could you explain this senence for me in the Ocaml mannul in Using coerecions? Well, the correct answer to your last questions is probably: Don't try to learn Ocaml from the reference manual. It will tell you everything about the language, but not necessaryly in the order you need to know it, and it doesn't tell you which parts of the language are fundamental (core language, modules), optional (labels, objects) or arcane (universal quantification, when to omit the first type in a coercion). Try the tutorial by Jason Hickey first. Note to INRIA: Describing the manual with "The Objective Caml manual begins with short tutorials on the core language, objects and classes, and modules." on the tutorials page is slightly misleading, those tutorials don't really add up to an introduction to ocaml. Yours, Florian. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners