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From: Dawid Toton <d0@wp.pl>
To: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: [Caml-list] Re: Arithmetic operations
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:57:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9328A0.3020504@wp.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B4FBC5C8-6915-4348-8181-408CB51D07A3@gmail.com>


> It would be so good if some missing operations on numbers could be
> added to the standard set : (...)
> The lack of those functions gives a feeling of immaturity of the
> language.
> Is it possible in some near futur release to add them ?
This is a matter of libraries, not the language. The standard library
coming with raw ocaml distribution is intended to be lightweight and
minimal. It is a library like core[1] or batteries[2] that should
provide the "standard set" of operations. You can consider filling a
feature request ticket.

Dawid

[1] http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/13
[2] http://batteries.forge.ocamlcore.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-30 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-27 19:02 [Caml-list] " Christophe Papazian
2011-03-30 12:57 ` Dawid Toton [this message]
2011-03-31  7:56   ` [Caml-list] " Christophe Papazian
2011-03-31  8:19     ` Pierre-Alexandre Voye
2011-03-31  9:23       ` Philippe Strauss
2011-03-31  9:38         ` Pierre-Alexandre Voye
2011-03-31 12:19           ` Gabriel Scherer
     [not found]             ` <133381EA-5DD1-4B00-A3BA-69127B259BE2@philou.ch>
2011-03-31 13:10               ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-03-31 15:52             ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-03-31 16:45               ` Ashish Agarwal
2011-03-31 18:13                 ` Anthony Tavener
2011-03-31 19:30                   ` Gerd Stolpmann
2011-03-31 23:43             ` Yaron Minsky
2011-03-31  8:36     ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-03-31  9:16     ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2011-03-31 12:50     ` Gerd Stolpmann

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