From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D11FBC8B for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:02:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de (mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de [192.54.42.129]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j14M2p8Q022444 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:02:52 +0100 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F48020032; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:02:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25933-01-84; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:02:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailhost.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (kaiser.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de [141.84.136.1]) by mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B0620031; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:02:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de [141.84.136.54]) by mailhost.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCCC026E87; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:02:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix, from userid 3092) id B90B53CBC; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:02:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C6D2D716; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:02:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:02:49 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Fischbacher To: Oliver Bandel Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community In-Reply-To: <20050204103006.GA498@first.in-berlin.de> Message-ID: References: <891bd33905020213315a2ebb18@mail.gmail.com> <8008871f05020213362d21ba87@mail.gmail.com> <000f01c50971$baad4840$0100a8c0@mshome.net> <1107403128.32586.223.camel@pelican.wigram> <20050203173556.4acec1c5.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> <009a01c50a1e$f6c92080$0100a8c0@mshome.net> <20050204103006.GA498@first.in-berlin.de> X-BOFH: Daemons did it MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at physik.uni-muenchen.de X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4203F10B.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 oliver:01 bandel:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 ...:98 ...:98 cip:98 cip:98 lambda:01 lambda:01 integer:01 debian:02 catching:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Oliver Bandel wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:16:33PM +0100, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > [...] > > (3) The type system is annoying. People claim it helps catching errors, > > but my impression is it only catches those which I would never make > > anyway. > [...] > > Well if it catches only errors you never make, you should > never had any warnings nor error messages from the type > system. > So, why is it annoying, if you never get a warning/error message? > > Normally you should not be aware of the type system, because you > do not make type-system-errors. Because the type system occasionally forces me to write code in funny ways, as I cannot "sometimes return an integer, sometimes a symbol" from a function, say. I would have to wrap this up. -- regards, tf@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (o_ Thomas Fischbacher - http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~tf //\ (lambda (n) ((lambda (p q r) (p p q r)) (lambda (g x y) V_/_ (if (= x 0) y (g g (- x 1) (* x y)))) n 1)) (Debian GNU)