From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p5SDs0qH027586 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:54:00 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvUBAKPcCU7RVdQ2kGdsb2JhbAA8AQMShEmicAgUAQEBAQkJDQcUBCGtJYtcPoJKhQY5iGgCAwaBJYN5gQwEkhCMEDyDVw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,437,1304287200"; d="scan'208";a="86228402" Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com ([209.85.212.54]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 28 Jun 2011 15:53:35 +0200 Received: by vws18 with SMTP id 18so298258vws.27 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:53:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=cUXJIdtIyDhsyKajqjusApAiOdxne8p9Wa8ySGE62As=; b=MY7OYMdJQZMJPAYxVsUdvFlPQPiaFSbFiTEfiKU0BaWiZz8H91zeoWtJzDwz7T+q7h cM8UmSGOYin6MzGNxrbIfE17jUYUSc9oL9uouSVLgQGcNVlPaJZgZwFN7A7ehFFK1xB1 aGVEWuhMDl60VxJUk+JYNgrKK2X0LfQWxxlCE= Received: by 10.52.76.162 with SMTP id l2mr10391336vdw.140.1309269214113; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:53:34 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.113.134 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:53:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20110628074716.7524c468.mihamina@bbs.mg> <4E0989B6.80902@inria.fr> <20110628151734.fc550345.mihamina@bbs.mg> From: Paolo Donadeo Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:53:14 +0200 Message-ID: To: OCaml mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by walapai.inria.fr id p5SDs0qH027586 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] beginners or not (Was: build problem with 3.12.0; no ocamlrun in /usr/local/bin) On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 15:41, Philippe Wang wrote: > I believe that discussions about types that less than 1% of all ocaml > programmers understand, recursive functors (for these it must be even > worse), GC tweaking, etc. is "hacking". > I don't think it's harmful to have such discussions in the standard > mailing list. > But I think it's harmful that the standard mailing list gives priority > to such discussions rather than to beginners, even if I kind of prefer > the current situation for practical reasons. 100% agree. Personally I consider discussions on garbage collecting recursive functors very interesting, but keeping the two communities separate is not a wise choice. -- Paolo ⠠⠵