From: Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org>
To: David Teller <David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr>
Cc: Caml <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] Standard syntax extensions ?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:41:17 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804241803010.9931@martin.ec.wink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209052182.6180.35.camel@Blefuscu>
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, David Teller wrote:
> * which syntax extensions do you use so often that you consider they
> should be part of the language ?
None because it creates unneeded dependencies between unrelated
libraries.
The problem is that software packages can only grow or be replaced
because of compatibility issues.
What if a part of a package (such as one syntax extension among many)
becomes unmaintainable?
The whole package dies.
I believe it's what happened to the Caml Development Kit (CDK).
I would love to hear some opinions from the CDK folks.
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-24 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-24 15:49 David Teller
2008-04-24 15:52 ` [Caml-list] " John Whitington
2008-04-25 8:22 ` Richard Jones
2008-05-01 7:45 ` Richard Jones
2008-04-24 16:16 ` [Caml-list] [OSR] Standard syntax extensions ? - voting Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-04-25 15:15 ` David Teller
2008-04-26 0:16 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-04-24 16:41 ` Martin Jambon [this message]
2008-04-24 17:02 ` [Caml-list] [OSR] Standard syntax extensions ? Jon Harrop
2008-04-24 20:53 ` Berke Durak
2008-04-25 8:24 ` Richard Jones
2008-04-25 16:59 ` Berke Durak
2008-04-25 17:31 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-04-25 17:38 ` Richard Jones
2008-04-25 10:33 ` Andrej Bauer
2008-04-25 15:32 ` David Teller
2008-04-24 17:05 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-04-25 13:57 ` Peng Zang
2008-04-25 15:04 ` David Teller
2008-04-25 16:11 ` Peng Zang
2008-04-25 20:37 ` Arthur Chan
2008-04-26 7:41 ` Richard Jones
2008-04-26 7:53 ` Till Crueger
2008-04-26 21:32 ` Arthur Chan
2008-04-27 6:58 ` Andrej Bauer
2008-04-27 14:14 ` Christopher L Conway
2008-04-27 17:41 ` [Caml-list] " David Teller
2008-04-27 17:44 ` David Teller
2008-04-25 22:25 ` Mike Lin
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