From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A45CBC88 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:05:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de (mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de [192.54.42.129]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j16A58cf002671 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:05:09 +0100 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB732002E; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:05:08 +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 02693-01-24; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:05:05 +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 E071C20014; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:05:05 +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 DCF8C26E87; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:05:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix, from userid 3092) id D6A743CBC; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:05:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D60A52D71A; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:05:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:05:05 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Fischbacher To: Richard Jones Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The boon of static type checking In-Reply-To: <20050206013420.GA4137@furbychan.cocan.org> Message-ID: References: <891bd33905020213315a2ebb18@mail.gmail.com> <877e9a170502031856175260c8@mail.gmail.com> <877e9a17050203185674680413@mail.gmail.com> <200502041026.56107.jon@jdh30.plus.com> <20050206013420.GA4137@furbychan.cocan.org> 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 concorde with ID 4205EBD4.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 naming:01 ocaml:01 perl's:01 ocaml:01 printf:01 cip:98 cip:98 lambda:01 lambda:01 structures:01 checking:01 data: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 Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Richard Jones wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:02:42AM +0100, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > > If I were to limit myself to naming only one ugly side of ocaml which I > > would like to see changed, this would be the unavailability of automatical > > printers for complicated composite nested data structures. That is, an > > equivalent of perl's Data::Dumper. > > Try: http://merjis.com/developers/dumper > > It's a Data::Dumper equivalent for OCaml. Pretty nice! Now, can this be made part of the core language, with a special %? sequence for printf? -- 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)