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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