From: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com>
To: Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Poly variants
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:36:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <891bd339041217133648f063e0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041217.220016.130320670.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be>
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:00:16 +0100 (CET), Christophe TROESTLER
<Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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 [...]
>
> I agree -- I personally would wish that the back tick only
> distinguishes between normal and polymorphic variant constructors.
More like we disagree... I see the point, but it seems fairly trivial
compared to breaking existing code. I vote nay to the change.
(luckily, ocaml is not a democracy.)
y
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-17 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-17 18:24 Christophe TROESTLER
2004-12-17 18:45 ` [Caml-list] " Tiago Dionizio
2004-12-17 19:05 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-12-18 1:04 ` skaller
2004-12-17 19:30 ` Yaron Minsky
2004-12-17 19:43 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-12-17 20:11 ` Yaron Minsky
2004-12-17 21:00 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-12-17 21:36 ` Yaron Minsky [this message]
2004-12-17 22:50 ` Damien Doligez
2004-12-18 1:29 ` Jacques Garrigue
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