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=0.7 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 mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B355BB84 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 21:45:36 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,736,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="32375196" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 08 Dec 2008 21:45:36 +0100 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id mB8KjZRe010320 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 21:45:36 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjABAOAVPUlDww/ZnGdsb2JhbACOK4UpAQEBAQEICwgJEa98gSwIiX0FAgGBdwiBAw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,736,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="32375195" Received: from web111515.mail.gq1.yahoo.com ([67.195.15.217]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with SMTP; 08 Dec 2008 21:45:34 +0100 Received: (qmail 39402 invoked by uid 60001); 8 Dec 2008 20:45:32 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=peV5WvZD1DfT/AY2XKXoVZabBgf4THw67DtwfuTQKLIzaPIbur31kZKV47gfga8xhlJpa5XykdtqiV+pGoITr6X6oQBWKo+6eVDI4xydT8buDshmzaXwiy5kkdv3wQ4NJt20eSDxpw0xi4Wk4SGEwhinbW0mfWXOy7lirGclxzI=; X-YMail-OSG: kI8CgSAVM1nrEXtxfWsTf9su_PWGqdlNPV.GXzKpOryd2mY1dNsEF8jPssEW9MO8BsCQQ8sPo1sEiaL0ARM3DQs.Vt_syX_O6kn9c4VBf9ijWFVeK1_gQXF_xVK5X8XdnjaD Received: from [213.205.71.50] by web111515.mail.gq1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:45:30 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 12:45:30 -0800 (PST) From: Dario Teixeira Subject: Re: [Caml-list] F# weaknesses To: caml-list@inria.fr, Gabriel Kerneis In-Reply-To: <20081208200206.GB3630@kerneis.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <750628.35610.qm@web111515.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 493D876F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 functors:01 variants:01 ocaml:01 camlp:01 cheers:01 polymorphic:01 caml-list:01 implemented:02 extension:06 annoying:08 certainly:09 i'm:09 curious:09 weaknesses:10 Hi, > I don't know how annoying the described weaknesses are > in a dayly use but people wanting to switch from OCaml to F# > should certainly take this into account. Did anyone tried F# > and have some feedback to share about this issues? I'm curious as well. I've never used F#, but the fact that they've removed functors and polymorphic variants -- two of the most interesting Ocaml features -- gives me at first glance an impression that F# is a castrated Ocaml. (Though I understand that some of these changes were necessary to integrate into the .Net world). I would like to hear the other side: features new to F# that would also be welcome in Ocaml, especially those that are not implemented already by some Camlp4 extension. Cheers, Dario Teixeira =0A=0A=0A