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 OAA13905; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:09:32 +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 OAA13831 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:09:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.dcs.qmul.ac.uk (vicar.dcs.qmul.ac.uk [138.37.95.146]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3QC9Ujq028118 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:09:30 +0200 Received: from xenografia.plus.com ([212.159.85.26] helo=dcs.qmul.ac.uk) by mail.dcs.qmul.ac.uk with asmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.32) id 1BI4vR-00088j-Iw; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:09:30 +0100 Message-ID: <408CFBDA.6040604@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:08:58 +0100 From: Martin Berger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, de-de, ru, pt-br MIME-Version: 1.0 To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net CC: The Caml Trade Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] The Missing Library References: <20040423185148.GA4434@excelhustler.com> <20040423195206.GA27257@tallman.kefka.frap.net> <20040423202342.GA5962@excelhustler.com> <20040423223611.33ef1c08@haddock.max.fr> <20040423211003.GD6783@excelhustler.com> <20040423213325.GF6783@excelhustler.com> <93448C92-9685-11D8-891D-000A958FF2FE@wetware.com> <408BA602.5090506@socialtools.net> <1082901345.9537.326.camel@pelican.wigram> In-Reply-To: <1082901345.9537.326.camel@pelican.wigram> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCS-Auth-User: martinb X-DCS-clamav-result: clean (1BI4vR-00088j-Iw) X-DCS-uvscan-result: clean (1BI4vR-00088j-Iw) X-Miltered: at = by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml's:01 expressive:01 pubs:01 generic:01 03.:99 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 syntax:02 compile:02 enforce:02 typing:03 library:03 library:03 algorithms:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > The result is, in my opinion, the best CS library > EVER built. Its just a pity the C++ language doesn't > have what it takes to drive it (lexical scoping > like ML has). i agree with this. what i wonder is: why not do the STL for ocaml? of course ocaml's typing system is not (yet) up expressive enough to express/enforce all relevant concepts, and may never be, but so what? neither is c++, but the STL is highly successful. it should not be too hard to come up with an ocaml-like syntax (an extension of ocaml) to specify STL-like data structures and algorithms and compile them down to ocaml. i think that would be very useful. what do you think? martin maybe this text is of interest: http://www.osl.iu.edu/publications/pubs/2003/comparing_generic_programming03.pdf ------------------- 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