From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA1B8BC6B for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:48:40 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAADJiNUdC+VypmGdsb2JhbACPAgEBAQEHBAQJChg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,399,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="19140450" Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 10 Nov 2007 16:48:40 +0100 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so532730ugc for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:48:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references:x-mailer:sender; bh=5Vtp6vGcgCr/pC6jpc+zfkeMsyvN9i/grYRC5A0PxsE=; b=Ht2arhVq34R762LaQPJSAJleAHZ3Oa7IqAVum3nVYvUi9Ox/X7KoRY/xC/gD59acO4pdZDpMzaMu6d68/PETBDBQsiR/CPXr2I2i9ZmrGolGBVMIPGa/T/66BEMJQ+XjnZicb0DidNUXN3hrcRIpQcCLX/DR/+WmUkq5f4beQks= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references:x-mailer:sender; b=XLSP0y/K8xuprFdsF9TJwiaPHKdGbz0oYqQ0GLp4f7n5JqUsfUU/c9EgXo57R6OHJt0UMal9VHaZa1RPdaC7amSf80xPtvBV+95DwVpEOQzaTAwBjrPr2+xkRYsZZ2+hlKW3+UlOanxEu1oGA9nbljS6bp0V1uBGQFW7go72jhA= Received: by 10.66.248.5 with SMTP id v5mr1119968ugh.1194709719675; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:48:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.59? ( [85.2.47.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l33sm2878619ugc.2007.11.10.07.48.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:48:38 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=FCnzli_Daniel?= To: caml-list caml-list In-Reply-To: <200711101458.04047.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v912) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml's formatting libraries Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:43:22 +0100 References: <9d3ec8300711080617g1b023711o1a8f9aa50b7874@mail.gmail.com> <20071109180948.GA15291@yquem.inria.fr> <92C50802-AFEE-4CD4-9F47-FBC9BCABC7A1@erratique.ch> <200711101458.04047.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.912) Sender: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel=20B=FCnzli?= X-Spam: no; 0.00; bunzli:01 buenzli:01 ocaml's:01 unparsing:01 incompatible:01 caml-list:01 functional:02 module:03 module:03 gui:03 daniel:04 daniel:04 i'd:06 i'd:06 ecrit:06 Le 10 nov. 07 =E0 15:58, Jon Harrop a =E9crit : > Functional unparsing requires a lot more code, It's a little bit less concise but I wouldn't say it is a *lot*. > produces worse error messages, Example please. > is much harder to learn, I don't think so. There really nothing hard in it, it is just ... =20 different. > is incompatible with the excellent Format module, Which wouldn't prevent the design of a new format module. > I'd much rather see effort put into visualization and GUI tools =20 > rather than > ASCII text tools... I'd rather have a simple and correct type system. Daniel