Re: [Caml-list] OCamlPro Highlights: Dec 2013 & Jan 2014

["Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>]

Le jeudi, 6 février 2014 à 12:31, Benjamin Canou a écrit :
> Thanks for your reactive input. OCamlRes is still in design stage (cf.
> the version number) and I published it for gathering potential usages  
> and users so it is very welcome. About the lack of mli, the  
> implementation is actually ocamldoc'ed, so a `make doc` and a good  
> browser should make for a reasonable substitute until the interface is  
> well frozen in an mli.

The problem of figuring out which functions in the ml are part of the interface and which are not is still solved by this approach (not to mention that you may expose representations you'd like to hide later). Besides you don't get any feel on how the interface is organized type-wise which is one of the quickest way to evaluate the brokenness or beauty of an api.  

As soon as I see a lack of mli files in a published package, I disregard. I equate it with lack of design.  

Best,

Daniel