From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2044DD55E for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:29:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j6S0TC48027854 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:29:12 +0200 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 CAA30411 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:29:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.208]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with SMTP id j6S0TAII009765 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:29:11 +0200 Received: (qmail 93100 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2005 00:29:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (rftp@pacbell.net@63.194.18.166 with plain) by smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Jul 2005 00:29:09 -0000 Message-ID: <42E826FA.10102@rftp.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:29:46 -0700 From: Robert Roessler Organization: Robert's High-performance Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Jones Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Some Clarifications References: <6C6555DF5D075A4EA6D27706F4EC5975031677D4@EUR-MSG-10.europe.corp.microsoft.com> <200507271158.09619.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <42E77634.6020904@rftp.com> <20050727140128.GA8027@furbychan.cocan.org> In-Reply-To: <20050727140128.GA8027@furbychan.cocan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42E826D8.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42E826D6.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 assertion:01 ...:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 modules:01 seems:03 smalltalk:03 illustrating:03 complex:04 jul:05 examples:07 wed:07 certainly:08 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Richard Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:55:32AM -0700, Robert Roessler wrote: > >>An object certainly seems a natural and concise way to represent a >>"state-holder-with-structured-access" - and I have done just that in a >>small OCaml project... but that could be the Smalltalk and C++ in my >>background talking. :) > > > Modules actually work better for this. In a non-trolling and non-flaming way (of course), I would be interested in examples illustrating your assertion - simple or complex, real or synthetic - I am usually ready to learn. :) Robert Roessler roessler@rftp.com http://www.rftp.com