From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA21657; Thu, 16 May 2002 21:45:47 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA21628 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 21:45:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hotmail.com (f119.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.15.119]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g4GJjj117794 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 21:45:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:45:44 -0700 Received: from 213.243.180.250 by lw10fd.law10.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 16 May 2002 19:45:44 GMT X-Originating-IP: [213.243.180.250] From: "Vesa Karvonen" To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Overlapping features of variant types and tuples in Ocaml Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 22:45:44 +0300 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 May 2002 19:45:44.0702 (UTC) FILETIME=[44B4C1E0:01C1FD12] Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Daniel de Rauglaudre: >On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:04:18PM +0300, Vesa Karvonen wrote: > > The constructor Non_tuple expects 2 argument(s), > > but is here applied to 1 argument(s) >This is resolved by fixing the syntax of OCaml. But improving the >syntax is supposed to be a loss of time by a lot of people. I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean that improving the syntax is perceived to be waste of time by many people, or do you mean that improving the syntax would waste the time of many people (or both)? I would estimate that it would take less than 30 minutes from a capable Ocaml developer to change and test this issue by modifying the Ocaml parser. After changing the syntax, it should be possible to simplify the handling of variant types in the compiler. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners