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 DAA19508; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 03:31:48 +0100 (MET) 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 DAA19809 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 03:31:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail2.hypermall.com (mail2.hypermall.com [216.241.37.118]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h282ViX23809 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 03:31:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from [216.241.35.41] (helo=swordfish) by mail2.hypermall.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18rU7h-0007pj-00 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 19:31:41 -0700 From: mgushee@havenrock.com To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 19:31:33 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [Caml-list] LablTk question Message-ID: <3E68F395.3648.855C1E6@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Spam: no; 0.00; mgushee:01 havenrock:01 labltk:01 widget:01 acronym:01 gushee:01 englewood:01 ocaml:01 deeper:02 types:03 okay:07 type:07 distribution:07 examples:07 tetris:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I'm trying to learn LablTk by studying the examples provided in the OCaml distribution ... looking at the Tetris game right now. Fortunately I have plenty of experience with Tk itself, so most of the code is intelligible. But I'm puzzled about the 'coe' function, as in: pack [coe c; coe r; coe r'] ~side: `Left ~fill: `Y; Okay, so I dug a little deeper and found that 'coe' is an alias for forget_type ... but why? What is the purpose of weakening the widget types as they are packed? And by the way, what does 'coe' stand for? Is it a French acronym? Thanks in advance for shedding light on this dark corner. -- Matt Gushee Englewood, CO USA ------------------- 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