I noticed that the last message from Jun Furuse was from the University of 
Tokyo. Has he left INRIA? He'd talked on the list (last May) of resuming 
GCaml work once 3.0.7 was out. Does his leaving (if he has left) mean the 
GCaml is "officially" dead again?

Would be a pity as generics seem a very expressive addition to Caml....

Greg

At 12:52 PM 4/8/2004, Issac Trotts wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:31:26PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 April 2004 3:56 pm, Markus Mottl wrote:
> > > On Thu, 08 Apr 2004, John Goerzen wrote:
> > > > Similar complaints exist for working with subsets of lists; it's really
> > > > too hard to say "replace elements 4 through 9 with this", "delete
> > > > elements 4 through 9", "return elements 4 through 9", etc.
> > >
> > > Yes, it's hard to do this with the current standard library.  The 
> question
> > > is: who needs these functions anyway?  I can't remember ever having felt
> > > a need for them.
> >
> > I could do with them! There are numerous such functions (and nice
> > implementations, like "List.nth -1 l" fetching the last element, more
> > powerful flatten etc.) which Mathematica has and which I miss.
>
>GCaml has the ability to do this kind of total flattenning of nested
>lists.  OCaml cannot do it unless you re-express your nested lists as
>binary trees or something similar.
>
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>Issac Trotts
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