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 MAA01856; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:09:18 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA03734 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:09:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from info.numeric-quest.com (info.numeric-quest.com [204.187.76.36]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with SMTP id f3NA9E921208 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:09:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 8753 invoked by uid 500); 23 Apr 2001 05:13:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Apr 2001 05:13:11 -0000 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 01:13:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Jan Skibinski To: Xavier Leroy cc: Jonathan Coupe , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml related article In-Reply-To: <20010423101220.B517@pauillac.inria.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Xavier Leroy wrote: > .. and since Smalltalk > has cleaner, more restrictive dynamic semantics than Perl, it could > actually be useful in finding errors. I believe the other motivations are: to improve on documentation (consistent naming policy is often not enough since it's tough to enforce it in a consistent and yet readable way) to ease a process of learning of a third party code and, first of all, to have a tool helping to identify/create some sort of modular structures within a given image. To elaborate a bit on the last point: As far as I know, inheritance is often being overused - resulting in some artificial relashionships, which create some delivery problems: how does one reduce the image size without removing one class or one method too many? This is often a lengthy post-mortem exercise - even though Smalltalk has variety of excellent tools to help with such tasks. Jan ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr