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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Yaron Minsky <yminsky@g...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Poly variants |
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:00:16 +0100 (CET), Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I don't think the critique applies. Variant types can be > > distinguished by the leading tick. Why do they need to be > > uppercased as well? I suppose it would provide some extra visual > > uniformity with [...] > > I agree -- I personally would wish that the back tick only > distinguishes between normal and polymorphic variant constructors. More like we disagree... I see the point, but it seems fairly trivial compared to breaking existing code. I vote nay to the change. (luckily, ocaml is not a democracy.) y