From: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com>
To: Andrej Bauer <andrej.bauer@andrej.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Improving OCaml's choice of type to display
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 05:58:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <891bd3390910090258l61aa7947p67a10c4adcc3312a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d8707de0910090033q4a14a108w62f13d7735994923@mail.gmail.com>
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Well, if we're picking heuristics, the fewest number of characters wouldn't
be crazy either. Given the choice between Int.t and Int.comparable (which
are aliases for the same type), I'd prefer to see Int.t.
y
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Andrej Bauer <andrej.bauer@andrej.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Choosing shorter names.
>
> By which you probably mean "the fewest number of dots (module
> projections)". It might be a bit annoying if the code that prints
> doesn't know what modules are open. What do the INRIA priests say?
>
> Andrej
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-09 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-09 1:40 Yaron Minsky
2009-10-09 1:53 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-10-11 14:57 ` [Caml-list] " Jun Furuse
2009-10-11 15:12 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-10-11 15:24 ` Jun Furuse
2009-10-11 19:57 ` Gilles Pirio
2009-10-11 21:17 ` [Caml-list] " Damien Guichard
2009-10-11 21:46 ` Gilles Pirio
2009-10-11 22:16 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2009-10-09 7:33 ` Andrej Bauer
2009-10-09 9:58 ` Yaron Minsky [this message]
2009-10-09 10:54 ` Alp Mestan
2009-10-09 11:15 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-10-09 14:18 ` Damien Guichard
2009-10-09 14:44 ` Vincent Aravantinos
2009-10-09 15:27 ` David Allsopp
2009-10-09 16:52 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-10-09 18:23 ` Damien Guichard
2009-10-09 18:14 ` Stephen Weeks
2009-10-10 15:08 ` Damien Guichard
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