From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201B6D45F for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 22:17:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jA3LHHu1017402 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 22:17:17 +0100 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA20829 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 22:17:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.enyo.de (mail.enyo.de [212.9.189.167]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jA3LHGJu017393 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 22:17:16 +0100 Received: from deneb.vpn.enyo.de ([212.9.189.177] helo=deneb.enyo.de) by albireo.enyo.de with esmtp id 1EXmSR-000229-JU; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:17:15 +0100 Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EXmSB-0007Ty-8u; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:16:59 +0100 From: Florian Weimer To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Wikipedia References: <200511031726.59561.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:16:59 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200511031726.59561.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (Jon Harrop's message of "Thu, 3 Nov 2005 17:26:59 +0000") Message-ID: <87sludctys.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 436A7E5D.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 436A7E5C.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 sml:01 haskell:01 annotations:01 polymorphic:01 corrections:02 florian:02 inferred:02 types:02 types:02 module:03 misleading:03 structure:04 submission:06 examples:07 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 * 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).