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| From: | Jérôme_Marant <jerome.marant@f...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Re: Syntax Changes in OCaml |
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:23:35PM +0100, Markus Mottl wrote: > On Mon, 04 Feb 2002, dbmcclain wrote: > > But this greater discussion has me wondering about whether you are > > talking of more egregious changes to the language syntax.... If so, > > it will certainly push me as a user to consider other alternatives. I > > don't wish to spend my time rewriting old code to keep up with a moving > > target language... > > There may be a misunderstanding here: the problem with the recent changes, > even if they were rather innocuous, is that you really have to adapt your > sources. At least for me this was not a big deal, because I had mostly > avoided labels so far, but it would be a nightmare if large parts of > the syntax changed. Isn't the -nolabels option here for backward compatibility? Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant ------------------- 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