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 QAA08861; Sat, 3 May 2003 16:38:11 +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 QAA08886 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 16:38:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail1.tpgi.com.au (mail.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.57]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h43Ec7T13082 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 16:38:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (syd-ts16-2600-014.tpgi.com.au [203.213.84.14]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by mail1.tpgi.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h43Ebnq32084; Sun, 4 May 2003 00:37:49 +1000 Message-ID: <3EB3D43C.3030701@ozemail.com.au> Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 00:37:48 +1000 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr CC: David Brown , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Easy solution in OCaml? References: <20030427164326.34082.qmail@web41211.mail.yahoo.com> <3EAD18FC.7050108@stud.uni-graz.at> <20030428142223.GA3924@opus.davidb.org> <200304282114.37271.exa@kablonet.com.tr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; ozemail:01 caml-list:01 eray:01 ozkural:01 closures:01 haskell:01 toxteth:01 glebe:01 2037,:01 9660:01 0850:01 semantics:01 ocaml:01 nsw:01 snail:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Eray Ozkural wrote: > On Monday 28 April 2003 17:22, David Brown wrote: > >>To me, the core feature of functional programming are first class >>closures. Everything else just makes it more convenient. >> > > Well said. I would also like to say here that I fail to see what distinguishes > the core of ocaml and haskell so much from a semantics point of view!!!!!!! Laziness. -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- 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