From: Sebastien.deMentendeHorne@electrabel.com
To: markus@oefai.at
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] choosing modules at runtime
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:09:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8D1414482878D4119AEE00508B6C9074089664C9@seacex02.eib.electrabel.be> (raw)
>
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Sebastien.deMentendeHorne@electrabel.com wrote:
> > Hmmm, by the way, if a plugin architecture is needed, are
> we facing the same
> > problem ?
>
> It depends. In most cases higher-order modules (i.e.
> functors) are perfect
> tools for creating plugin architectures. Problems only sometimes arise
> when "plugins" are dynamically selected or even generated,
> e.g. depending
> on some command-line switches. Then they can become somewhat
> cumbersome
> to use. In such cases first-class modules would be fine.
>
I looked at functors and they suffered of staticity.
The plugin we use are dynamically (runtime) selected and they should/could
be even generated at runtime, compiled, loaded and selected... I think that
plugins are most often used in a dynamic way so definitely, first-class
modules would be great.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-24 11:09 Sebastien.deMentendeHorne [this message]
2002-09-24 11:41 ` Markus Mottl
2002-09-30 7:28 ` John Max Skaller
2002-10-02 13:04 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-02 13:28 ` Dave Mason
2002-10-02 20:57 ` Chris Hecker
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2002-09-24 10:40 Sebastien.deMentendeHorne
2002-09-24 11:00 ` Markus Mottl
2002-09-24 8:48 Henri Dubois-Ferriere
2002-09-24 9:36 ` Andreas Rossberg
2002-09-24 10:37 ` Markus Mottl
2002-09-24 10:08 ` Markus Mottl
2002-09-24 10:18 ` Olivier Andrieu
2002-09-24 17:24 ` Sven LUTHER
2002-09-24 10:42 ` Yamagata Yoriyuki
2002-09-24 12:43 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-09-24 12:55 ` Maxence Guesdon
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