From: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com>
To: Rich Neswold <rich.neswold@gmail.com>
Cc: Inria Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Preventing values from escaping a context
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:59:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <891bd3391002081959i4f9b70d4re1914ad7e439b5e3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14cf844b1002081907y2900c313q97ae0cb6f4c92394@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Rich Neswold <rich.neswold@gmail.com>wrote:
> (I realize that making this context a monad is a legitimate solution.
> However, until I see the Ocaml community including monads in the standard
> library, I think I'll stick with idiomatic Ocaml. I'd also like to solve
> this functionally, so I'm discounting the use of objects. Sorry for these
> constraints!)
>
I don't know that monads solve your problem here, but monads are a perfectly
reasonable idiom in OCaml. You won't find them in the standard library
because the standard library is very conservative. But you will find them
in Jane Street's Core library, and we use them reasonably often. I think
there's no reason to avoid monads in OCaml (although obviously there's not
much to be gained by using them for vanilla effects, as is done in Haskell.)
y
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-09 3:07 Rich Neswold
2010-02-09 3:38 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2010-02-09 8:24 ` Miles Sabin
2010-02-09 8:43 ` Jacques Garrigue
2010-02-09 17:18 ` Rich Neswold
2010-02-09 8:31 ` Tiphaine Turpin
2010-02-09 18:09 ` Rich Neswold
2010-02-09 18:45 ` Tiphaine Turpin
2010-02-10 0:39 ` Rich Neswold
2010-02-10 8:55 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-02-10 18:00 ` Rich Neswold
2010-02-10 21:37 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-02-09 17:13 ` Rich Neswold
2010-02-09 3:59 ` Yaron Minsky [this message]
2010-02-09 17:16 ` Rich Neswold
2010-02-11 10:39 ` Alexey Rodriguez
2010-02-11 11:05 ` rossberg
2010-02-11 13:52 ` Alexey Rodriguez
2010-02-11 15:17 ` rossberg
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