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 SAA07955; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:28:08 +0100 (MET) 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 SAA07659 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:28:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from grace.speakeasy.org (grace.speakeasy.org [216.254.0.2]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id h1OHS6T08219 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:28:06 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 27193 invoked by uid 36130); 24 Feb 2003 17:28:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Feb 2003 17:28:05 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:28:05 -0800 (PST) From: brogoff@speakeasy.net To: "caml-list@inria.fr" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml standard library improvement In-Reply-To: <14211.1046105439@saul.cis.upenn.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Benjamin C. Pierce wrote: > I'm all in favor of improving the standard library, but... > > 1) I agree that such a project will be most useful if there is some > kind of strong unifying vision > > 2) I suggest looking at the SML Basis Library for ideas -- the people > that designed it thought a *lot* about consistent naming and such. > (In fact, would it be a bad idea just to *copy* the SML basis APIs > verbatim?) That's a great idea! There are a few things that would need to change, of course, like transforming tupled arguments to curried ones, and probably changing interCap function names to caml_style_underscore_separated ones but I think just staying as close as possible to the SML Basis makes a lot of sense for a number of reasons. -- Brian ------------------- 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