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 JAA27800; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:23:37 +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 JAA26491 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:23:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from alex.baretta.com (host66-243.pool8021.interbusiness.it [80.21.243.66]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i747NZmL002835 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:23:35 +0200 Received: from baretta.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by alex.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA6972D5B90; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 03:24:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <41108F3A.2060307@baretta.com> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:24:42 +0200 From: Alex Baretta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: it, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David McClain , Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Wish List for Large Mutable Objects References: <002101c47839$c9c55bc0$0201a8c0@dylan> In-Reply-To: <002101c47839$c9c55bc0$0201a8c0@dylan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41108EF7.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; baretta:01 baretta:01 caml-list:01 mcclain:01 ocaml:01 mutable:01 alex:01 alex:01 objects:02 wrote:03 library:03 mean:05 libraries:09 david:09 language:10 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk David McClain wrote: > With a language as rich and wonderful as OCaml, I really can't understand > your hostility to useful additions to the language. If you don't want to > play, you don't have to join my sandbox -- find another. > The language is truly great, but that doesn't mean that all libraries we've ever dreamt of are actually available. I think your idea of windowed mmapped access to files would make an excellent library. Only, don't ask Xavier to do it. Alex ------------------- 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