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@ 2003-08-08 14:38 Arturo Borquez
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From: Arturo Borquez @ 2003-08-08 14:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: John Max Skaller; +Cc: caml-list

wyse words
regards
Arturo Borquez

John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>james woodyatt wrote:
>
>
>> I would strongly second this advice.  When I came to Ocaml from C++, I 
>> did not heed this advice-- and I wasted a lot of time learning why that 
>> was a mistake.
>
>Actaully, my advice to C++ programmers is the same :-)
>Don't use classes. Plain old data structures are generally
>better -- precisely because they *don't* provide encapsulation.
>
>This saves a whole lot of time writing methods, when you could
>just manipulate the data structure directly. Just kill off
>stupid Visitor patterns and things and write the code you need
>without encumbering yourself with attempts to abstract things
>that usually aren't abstract in the first place.
>
>In most business code, even the kinds which are in principle
>abstractable are often best not abstracted simply because
>there aren't enough instances of the abstraction to bother,
>and the client is sure to change the rules and break your
>polymorphism anyhow :-)
>
>An example where abstraction is useful: the back end
>of a code generator (such as Ocaml itself, or Ocamldoc),
>can sensibly be abstracted. However getting the abstraction
>just right is a non-trivial exercise and it's often better
>to do case by case encoding until the actual abstraction
>emerges in the code itself (and then you can encapsulate it).
>
>To put this another way -- don't use abstractions unless you
>have a strong theory that tells you what they actually are,
>and even then, be circumspect ...
>
>-- 
>John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au
>snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia.
>voice:61-2-9660-0850
>
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-- 
Arturo Borquez


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* [Caml-list] Unix.kill on Win32
@ 2003-08-06 12:35 James Scott
  2003-08-06 12:57 ` [Caml-list] static class member Vovka
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: James Scott @ 2003-08-06 12:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: caml-list

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Hi All, 
 
Would it be possible/sensible to have some limited implementation of
Unix.kill for Win32, so that 'kill pid 9' or 'kill pid 15' worked for
example?
 
James 

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2003-08-06 14:45   ` Richard Jones
2003-08-06 14:51     ` David Brown
2003-08-06 15:10       ` Richard Jones
2003-08-06 16:12         ` brogoff
2003-08-06 17:43           ` Richard Jones
2003-08-06 18:11             ` David Brown
2003-08-06 18:30               ` William Lovas
2003-08-06 18:14             ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-08-07  0:12           ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-08-07  5:20           ` james woodyatt
2003-08-07 17:02             ` brogoff
2003-08-07 21:53             ` John Max Skaller
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