Re: [Caml-list] OCaml release roadmap

[Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>]

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Note that the readability benefits of inline records on value-manipulating
code can already be reaped by just using variant constructors with only one
argument, a record. The feature is more of an optimization of the memory
representation of this case (won't matter much for most applications) --
and also, admittedly, the readability of the type declaration. Its future
availability could be taken as a mere encouragement to use this style
already today.

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Jonas Jensen <jj@issuu.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a good reason not to release current trunk as 4.03 soon?
>
> Manpower is one such reason. Also, we like to thoroughly test our
> code before we release it. And there are several important features
> in the works.
>
> > According to http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5528, the "Inline
> > records for constructor arguments" feature has been merged to trunk. I
> > think this is a huge improvement to the language that will improve
> > code readability for at lot of projects.
>
> I see it as a rather small feature. It's not in the same league as GADTs
> or Modular Implicits, for example.
>
> > An end-of-year release seems
> > very far away, especially if the release date slips because multicore
> > support is such a disruptive change.
>
> I know our release schedule is rather slow, but OCaml is a really
> complex system and we like to think things through before we
> release, and this has already saved us from several bad design
> decisions.
>
> -- Damien
>
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