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 UAA23103; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:44:25 +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 UAA23086 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:44:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from woodstock.1969.ws (64-215-156-42.eosinc.net [64.215.156.42]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id h38IiLX03841 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:44:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 8686 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2003 18:26:31 -0000 Received: from karl.1969.ws (HELO 1969.ws) (10.3.2.15) by woodstock.1969.ws with SMTP; 8 Apr 2003 18:26:31 -0000 Message-ID: <3E9319B5.7090905@1969.ws> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 11:49:25 -0700 From: Karl Zilles Organization: 1969 Communications, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Hecker CC: Brian Hurt , Nickolay Semyonov-Kolchin , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] single-line comment request References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030408091635.037a29b0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030408110617.0389bde8@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030408110617.0389bde8@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 hecker:01 avoiding:01 chris:01 token:01 wrote:03 bunch:03 implement:05 seems:05 argue:05 complaining:06 type:07 minor:07 matching:08 comment:08 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Chris Hecker wrote: > There's really no downside that I can see to supporting them besides > minor backwards compatibility (but hey, if you want to port back, just > write an editor macro to convert them since you argue they're so easy! > :), using another token, and somebody has to go implement them. There > are many minor upsides, including a bunch that haven't been listed like > avoiding questions about this topic on the list, and matching people's > intuition from C++, etc. It seems like a clear win to me. I agree. Clearly this is not *needed*, but it is something I have found myself wishing for. Something simple to type would be nice. I find (**) to be a little acrobatic for my fingers. (I can imagine I will be mocked for complaining about this). ------------------- 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