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From: Mark Shinwell <mshinwell@janestreet.com>
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Cc: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@janestreet.com>,
	ygrek <ygrek@autistici.org>,
	 "caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Should -strict-sequence become the default?
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:18:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM3Ki76f7FuOBQ6+_JR38A+0xBjNJHHZQzHMM9XgaC_PN1WmXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+p7B-z8cJD2BgXoWHqTF3kaP5o0HJ-QNT9n95TV+AJd2o_oQw@mail.gmail.com>

On 28 October 2013 09:08, Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> This said, I personally do not like the statement warning, and I'm not a big
> fan of
> -strict-sequence either, as both require changes in APIs.

I'm very much in favour of making -strict-sequence the default.

It doesn't seem to me that, given suitable notice disseminated through this
mailing list, the change is overly disruptive.  (The fixing of code
should largely
be a mechanical process; and the error can be quickly turned off in the event
of having a particularly problematic source file.)

Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-28 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-27 14:20 Yaron Minsky
2013-10-27 14:43 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2013-10-27 18:27 ` John Whitington
2013-10-27 18:47   ` Yaron Minsky
2013-10-28 12:42     ` ygrek
2013-10-28 13:00       ` Yaron Minsky
2013-10-28 13:08         ` Jacques Garrigue
2013-10-28 13:18           ` Mark Shinwell [this message]
2013-10-28 14:13             ` Malcolm Matalka

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