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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Wikipedia
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:16:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sludctys.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511031726.59561.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (Jon Harrop's message of "Thu, 3 Nov 2005 17:26:59 +0000")

* Jon Harrop:

> Unfortunately, the quality of this page is substantially worse than
> that of the equivalent pages on SML, Haskell and so on. I have tried
> to improve the page myself but most of my links have been removed
> following complaints to admim by an anonymous, German-speaking,
> OCaml-using physicist with the IRC nic "tf" and all of my
> corrections were removed by Mike Lin. My code examples remain
> though.

Mike has offered to reaccept your submission if it's more
encyclopedia-style.  However, I think your claim that you can do
completely without type annotations is a bit misleading.  You need
some (module) types to give structure to your programs, and some types
simply cannot be inferred (polymorphic record fields, for example).


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-03 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-03 17:26 Wikipedia Jon Harrop
2005-11-03 19:24 ` [Caml-list] Wikipedia Gerd Stolpmann
2005-11-04  2:31   ` skaller
2005-11-04 13:46     ` [Caml-list] what is high-level (was: Wikipedia) Blue Prawn
2005-11-04 15:13       ` Brian Hurt
2005-11-04 15:28         ` David Teller
2005-11-04 16:02           ` skaller
2005-11-04 16:06           ` [Caml-list] what is high-level Alan Falloon
2005-11-04 16:10             ` William D. Neumann
2005-11-04 16:14             ` David Teller
2005-11-05  0:29             ` skaller
2005-11-05 22:05               ` Michael Walter
2005-11-06 14:28                 ` skaller
2005-11-04 16:50         ` Matt Gushee
2005-11-03 19:30 ` [Caml-list] Wikipedia Kip Macy
2005-11-03 20:46   ` Matt Gushee
2005-11-03 21:08     ` Mike Lin
2005-11-03 21:16 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2005-11-04 17:15 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-11-04 21:05   ` Alex Goldman
2005-11-04 21:53     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-11-04 22:24       ` Alex Goldman
2005-11-06 19:32 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-11-07  6:44   ` Tony Edgin
2005-11-07 12:23     ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-11-07 12:55       ` skaller
2005-11-07 13:03         ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-11-06 20:22 Frederic GAVA
2005-11-06 23:29 ` skaller
2005-11-07 10:14   ` Andreas Rossberg
2005-11-07 12:25     ` skaller
2005-11-07  1:21 ` Thomas Fischbacher

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