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Re: [Caml-list] A G'Caml question" + additional info
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Krishnaswami, Neel
- Brian Rogoff
- Markus Mottl
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John Max Skaller
- Alexander V. Voinov
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| From: | Alexander V. Voinov <avv@q...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] A G'Caml question" + additional info |
John Max Skaller wrote: > > "Krishnaswami, Neel" wrote: > > > Permit me to disagree. I find nearly all of OCaml's features highly > > useful and orthogonal, and I am only working on medium size projects. > > I don't find that is entirely true. > First, there is quite a bit of sugar, such as fun/function/match, > if then else vs. matching. ... > I'm NOT complaining, just disagreeing. > In my current project, I've been sticking to the basic > feature set. But I'm stronly tempted to switch to polymorphic > variants, because they'd provide much better typing for > my application. .... And in general, redundancy is certainly not an ontological evil when it is properly structured. Otherwise we wouldn't make any use of poetry. Alexander ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr