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From: Ivan Gotovchits <ivg@ieee.org>
To: Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>
Cc: David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org>,
	 Paolo Donadeo <p.donadeo@gmail.com>,
	 OCaml mailing list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml vs Ada and/or GUI options
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:25:53 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4cuu3em.fsf@golf.niidar.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130911183629.GB3764@notk.org> (Adrien Nader's message of "Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:36:29 +0200")

Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org> writes:

>>   4. The use of callbacks everywhere looks to me like writing
>> spaghetti code. I still hope somebody will write an
>> API/Framework/whatever were one writes declaratively how the GUI
>> should react and interact with application code, and all the needed
>> code is generated automatically. Adobe had such a tool at one point
>> for its internal use (i.e. for its applications). I don't know if
>> reactive approaches would help in that regard.
>
> I'm afraid you'll find the same issues everywhere. One way or another
> it'll boil down to the same thing.

Consider using lwt-glib integration. You can transform any callback to a
function returning lwt. You even go futher and use Lwt_react to
transform glib events to declarative events and signals of (Lwt)React.

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         (oo) 
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...."Have you mooed today?"...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-12  3:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-10 21:09 Gour
2013-09-10 21:38 ` Paolo Donadeo
2013-09-11  5:24   ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11  7:21     ` Kakadu
2013-09-11  8:21       ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-11  8:14     ` Gour
2013-09-11 18:17       ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11 19:31         ` Gour
2013-09-11 19:53           ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11 20:41             ` Gour
2013-09-11 21:01               ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-12  5:44                 ` Gour
2013-09-12  6:31                   ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-12  5:36             ` Gour
2013-09-12  6:48               ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-12  7:26                 ` Gour
2013-09-11 20:06         ` Jon Harrop
2013-09-11 20:48           ` Anthony Tavener
2013-09-11 21:04             ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-12 14:40             ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2013-09-12 14:51               ` Alain Frisch
2013-09-12 14:57                 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2013-09-12 15:04                   ` Alain Frisch
2013-09-14  3:05                 ` Jon Harrop
2013-09-14  7:10                   ` Kakadu
2013-09-14 11:37                     ` Jon Harrop
2013-09-15  8:32                       ` Kakadu
2013-09-14 23:51                   ` Francois¡¡Charles Matthieu¡¡Berenger
2013-09-11 22:17           ` [Caml-list] " Richard W.M. Jones
2013-09-12 13:49             ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2013-09-12 13:58               ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-09-11  9:49     ` David MENTRE
2013-09-11 10:14       ` Kakadu
2013-09-11 15:21         ` David MENTRE
2013-09-12  1:31           ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-11 18:43         ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11 18:36       ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11 19:34         ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-11 19:45           ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11 22:06             ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2013-09-12  3:25         ` Ivan Gotovchits [this message]
2013-09-12  6:41         ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-12 11:49           ` Gerd Stolpmann
2013-09-11 19:17       ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-11 22:03       ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2013-09-12  8:16         ` Alain Frisch
2013-09-11 12:26     ` Jon Harrop
2013-09-11 18:48       ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11 13:22     ` Paolo Donadeo
2013-09-11 13:33       ` Kakadu
2013-09-11 14:09         ` Paolo Donadeo
2013-09-11 19:36           ` Jon Harrop
2013-09-11 19:45             ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-12 12:55               ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2013-09-11 18:57       ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11 19:01         ` Rudi Grinberg
2013-09-11 19:15           ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11  8:10   ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-11  1:00 ` [Caml-list] " Francois Berenger
2013-09-11  5:07   ` rixed
2013-09-11  8:26     ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-11  9:23       ` rixed
2013-09-11 12:54         ` Leo White
2013-09-11 12:59           ` Gour
2013-09-11 19:06             ` Adrien Nader
2013-09-11  8:16   ` Gour
2013-09-11  9:00     ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-11 19:19       ` Gour
2013-11-17 20:12       ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-11  7:38 ` Gabriel Kerneis
2013-09-11  8:20   ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-11 11:42     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2013-09-18 11:42       ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2013-09-18 12:24         ` Gerd Stolpmann
2013-09-20  4:47           ` Gour
2013-09-19  8:11         ` Alain Frisch
2013-09-19  8:30           ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-09-19  8:47             ` Andreas Rossberg
2013-09-20  4:51           ` Gour
2013-09-20 12:04             ` Gerd Stolpmann

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