From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id BAA24363; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 01:07:31 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 BAA25434 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 01:07:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from jetspin.drizzle.com (jetspin.drizzle.com [216.162.192.5]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3PN7Sjq004353 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2004 01:07:28 +0200 Received: from greything.gak.com (mist55.drizzle.com [216.162.215.55]) by jetspin.drizzle.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3PN7H4x009222; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:07:17 -0700 Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.2.20040425160038.02aee918@ofserver.org> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:07:42 -0700 To: Caml List From: Greg K Subject: [Caml-list] Is GCaml Dead Again? Cc: Issac Trotts In-Reply-To: <20040408195224.GC13798@mev> References: <200404081631.26461.jdh30@cam.ac.uk> <20020104004356.GA1672@mev> <20040408133727.GC29195@excelhustler.com> <20040408145606.GA18473@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> <200404081631.26461.jdh30@cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Miltered: at = by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; gcaml:01 furuse:01 gcaml:01 generics:01 expressive:01 issac:01 trotts:01 2004:99 2004:99 issac:01 trotts:01 ijtrotts:01 bug:01 faq:01 faq:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I noticed that the last message from Jun Furuse was from the University of Tokyo. Has he left INRIA? He'd talked on the list (last May) of resuming GCaml work once 3.0.7 was out. Does his leaving (if he has left) mean the GCaml is "officially" dead again? Would be a pity as generics seem a very expressive addition to Caml.... Greg At 12:52 PM 4/8/2004, Issac Trotts wrote: >On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:31:26PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: > > On Thursday 08 April 2004 3:56 pm, Markus Mottl wrote: > > > On Thu, 08 Apr 2004, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > Similar complaints exist for working with subsets of lists; it's really > > > > too hard to say "replace elements 4 through 9 with this", "delete > > > > elements 4 through 9", "return elements 4 through 9", etc. > > > > > > Yes, it's hard to do this with the current standard library. The > question > > > is: who needs these functions anyway? I can't remember ever having felt > > > a need for them. > > > > I could do with them! There are numerous such functions (and nice > > implementations, like "List.nth -1 l" fetching the last element, more > > powerful flatten etc.) which Mathematica has and which I miss. > >GCaml has the ability to do this kind of total flattenning of nested >lists. OCaml cannot do it unless you re-express your nested lists as >binary trees or something similar. > >-- >Issac Trotts >http://mallorn.ucdavis.edu/~ijtrotts >(w) 530-757-8789 > >------------------- >To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr >Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ >Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners