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Date: | 2004-11-03 (22:32) |
From: | Manos Renieris <er@c...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Worsening standard library |
read_int read_line read_float are all in Pervasives. -- Manos On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:11:08AM +0300, Serge wrote: > > Gentlemen! > > I think this might be kinda offtopic, but nevertheless. OCaml is being > extensively employed for educational purposes, and it looks like it is > still missing an important feature - the one of easy reading numbers > (integers/floats/doubles) from, say, standard input. You have to read > lines and parse numbers out of them. For instance, in Pascal it was > possible to do "read(x)". > > Absence of such feature distracts people from trying to program sensible > things in OCaml. It would be nice to have such functionality in the > standard library. > > I do not wish to start a rant like "let us include simplex method in the > std since it is gravely important" etc., but I do think that _ability to > read numbers from stdin in a standard way_ is very important for the > language like OCaml - because students want it very much, and it is not > ugly in any way. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Serge S. Bityukov, Moscow State University, Dept of Mechanics and Mathematics > > > _______________________________________________ > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: > http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs