From: Alex Baretta <alex@barettadeit.com>
To: Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>
Cc: Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Pervasives.compare output type
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:28:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <424AC58B.2080000@barettadeit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <web-87465756@cgpsrv2.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Jacques Carette wrote:
> Alex Baretta <alex@barettadeit.com> wrote:
>
>> Xavier Leroy wrote:
>> > It's a historical error. [...]
>>
>> Whether fixing such historical errors engenders more benefits than
>> trouble is a very interesting philosophical question.
> It all depends on whether the installed base is viewed as more/less
> important as the future integrity of the software system as a whole.
> When I was in industry, I was in a position where I made the choice that
> future integrity was more important...
On purely theoretical grounds, I agree with you that working around
"historical errors" is generally worse than updating the existing code
base. I wonder if Xavier agrees. I also wonder if there are "border
constraints" beyond his personal taste on this matter.
Alex
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-30 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-24 18:47 Alex Baretta
2005-03-24 19:41 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2005-03-24 21:00 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-03-24 21:38 ` Bardur Arantsson
2005-03-24 22:07 ` [Caml-list] " Jason Hickey
2005-03-24 22:26 ` brogoff
2005-03-25 9:42 ` Alex Baretta
2005-04-01 5:59 ` Aleksey Nogin
2005-03-24 22:15 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-03-24 22:41 ` Bardur Arantsson
2005-03-25 9:43 ` [Caml-list] " Alex Baretta
2005-03-29 7:14 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2005-03-30 14:17 ` Xavier Leroy
2005-03-30 14:45 ` Alex Baretta
2005-03-30 15:11 ` Jacques Carette
2005-03-30 15:28 ` Alex Baretta [this message]
2005-03-30 17:47 ` brogoff
2005-03-30 18:21 ` Jacques Carette
2005-03-30 18:49 ` brogoff
2005-03-30 20:06 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-30 20:43 ` Jacques Carette
2005-03-30 22:14 ` Christopher Dutchyn
2005-03-31 0:44 ` brogoff
2005-03-30 22:43 ` GADT?? (Re: [Caml-list] Pervasives.compare output type) Oliver Bandel
2005-03-30 22:35 ` [Caml-list] Pervasives.compare output type Oliver Bandel
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