From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: 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 340FCBB81 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:11:58 +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 iBHKBv0m015460 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:11:57 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA12215 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:11:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBHKBufn006968 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:11:56 +0100 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 37so214296wra for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:11:56 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=HXqF7/CkFohOriSbS1eifu38Kg2h9w/IifVzL8jbzMMAt1uxQXc/fKdF/gTuLwJkdrizTjHwb5OXHxuFx8q1eiD75kcNJ4GI5r/C6ANEZeyKC5cNUg3QNUEZR/4xeeCUPyOh1KN8jU8hN7zHvoZLuzlgmZR6AhU6pjAEJ4ZKrH0= Received: by 10.54.54.50 with SMTP id c50mr161683wra; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:11:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.2.73 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:11:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <891bd33904121712117449f55e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:11:56 -0500 From: Yaron Minsky Reply-To: yminsky@cs.cornell.edu To: Christophe TROESTLER Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Poly variants Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20041217.204348.12647766.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041217.192413.37282635.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> <891bd339041217113059c3998e@mail.gmail.com> <20041217.204348.12647766.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41C33D8D.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41C33D8C.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; yaron:01 minsky:01 yminsky:01 caml-list:01 variants:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 umh:01 wrote:01 yaron:01 minsky:01 yminsky:01 wrote:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_BY_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:43:48 +0100 (CET), Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Yaron Minsky wrote: > > > > Egad! I wish someone had announced this! Our code uses all sorts of > > lower-case variants. Is there a serious possibility of this going > > away? And if so, why? > > See e.g. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/appel92critique.html section 3, > page 12. Other will certainly have more to say. (My original post > was motivated by hitting such a "bug".) I don't think the critique applies. Variant types can be distinguished by the leading tick. Why do they need to be uppercased as well? I suppose it would provide some extra visual uniformity with ordinary variant types, but it hardly seems worth breaking existing code for that. y