From: Jan Skibinski <jans@numeric-quest.com>
To: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
Cc: OCAML <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Announcement: LACAML
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 06:20:54 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101250516001.12230-100000@info.numeric-quest.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010125135807.A18259@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
Markus,
Some final comments...
> > I do not know whether similar approach would be feasible with
> > Ocaml objects, but if yes then I would recommend it highly.
>
> I think that default arguments in OCaml are a very fine means to hide the
> complexity of function interfaces without sacrificing richness of features
> and efficiency.
I do not follow ocaml closely enough to appreciate supposed
elegancy and efficiency of default arguments. If by this you
mean that you can shorten the list of arguments when user wants
to use defaults, but he still needs to supply all of them
otherwise then this sounds as half a solution to me.
By going this route you will present the user with exactly the
same complexity as the original Fortran specification.
To respond to your other objections I point you to a short
introduction:
http://www.eiffel.com/doc/eiffelworld/5.1/new_release.html
Please do not take it lightly: LANPACK is a complex piece of
software and there is no reason why your library would follow
suit all those complexities and other quirks.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-26 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-25 0:11 Markus Mottl
2001-01-25 7:21 ` Jan Skibinski
2001-01-25 12:58 ` Markus Mottl
2001-01-25 11:20 ` Jan Skibinski [this message]
2001-01-25 16:46 ` Markus Mottl
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