That's a very sensible naming. Then evolution takes hold. ;) Thanks for the history! On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Jun Furuse wrote: > The first "labl" implmentation was done by me, labl-light, an extnsion of > caml-light with labeled argumnts for my master thesis. I named it labl with > serious respct to Caml community. Not a joke. The real silly part is that > the implmentation was lost due to a hard driv crash. > > Jun Furus > On Aug 22, 2012 5:28 AM, "Anthony Tavener" > wrote: > >> Ah! Okay, I guess I should have realized... just how I pronounce it >> anyway: Label. >> >> Well, thanks. One less mystery in my world. :) >> >> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: >> >>> Am 21.08.2012 23:10:56 schrieb(en) Anthony Tavener: >>> >>> I've sometimes wondered this... but where does "Labl" come from in >>>> LablGL/TK/GTK and now Lablwebkit? >>>> >>>> OCaml bindings to libraries... but I'm not sure how to come to that >>>> prefix, >>>> even invoking my limited French. Maybe it's obvious, but I've failed to >>>> see >>>> it. Any hints? :) >>>> >>> >>> Labl is from "label" in the same way as caml is from "camel"... This is >>> just a silly joke. The Labl* libraries were the first using labeled >>> arguments, and were origally written for a branch of ocaml implementing >>> these labels for the first time, called "Objective Labl". This branch was >>> later merged with trunk. >>> >>> Gerd >>> >>> PS. Of course, caml is an acronym and has nothing to do with camels. >>> -- >>> ------------------------------**------------------------------ >>> Gerd Stolpmann, Darmstadt, Germany gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de >>> Creator of GODI and camlcity.org. >>> Contact details: http://www.camlcity.org/**contact.html >>> Company homepage: http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de >>> ------------------------------**------------------------------ >> >> >>