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Re: [Caml-list] Future of labels
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| From: | John Max Skaller <skaller@o...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Future of labels, and ideas for library labelling |
"Eric C. Cooper" wrote: > The label technology is an impressive piece of work -- it seems like a > very clean extension to the core language and clearly increases the > expressive power for a certain programming style. But the examples of > this style that I have seen, namely Tk and Gtk, seem to have been forced > on us by "foreign" packages. Would a "native" library need labels as > badly? Yes, if it were implementing something as 'complex' as a GUI. Many commercial applications embody much detail (even though they're not intrinsically 'complex') -- John (Max) Skaller, mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au 10/1 Toxteth Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia voice: 61-2-9660-0850 checkout Vyper http://Vyper.sourceforge.net download Interscript http://Interscript.sourceforge.net ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr