From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDFB0BC0B for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:56:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.janestcapital.com (www.janestcapital.com [66.155.124.107]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0GDu1vN009129 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:56:03 +0100 Received: from [192.168.250.117] [209.213.205.130] by janestcapital.com with ESMTP (SMTPD-9.10) id A96F1234; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:55:59 -0500 Message-ID: <45ACD96F.4020803@janestcapital.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:55:59 -0500 From: Brian Hurt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features References: <45A87011.8080203@gmail.com> <20070115221717.GA9982@snarc.org> <1168910291.9207.62.camel@rosella.wigram> <200701160211.02613.jon@ffconsultancy.com> In-Reply-To: <200701160211.02613.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 45ACD971.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 compiler:01 wrote:01 sticking:01 caml-list:01 exceptions:01 strings:01 functional:02 brian:05 brian:05 newbies:05 file:08 obvious:09 aren't:11 robust:11 Jon Harrop wrote: >However, simply trying to read a file as a list of strings is a sticking point >for many newbies because the obvious functional implementations aren't >robust: > > > Exceptions are evil. Brian