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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Florian Weimer <fw@d...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Wikipedia |
* Jon Harrop: > Unfortunately, the quality of this page is substantially worse than > that of the equivalent pages on SML, Haskell and so on. I have tried > to improve the page myself but most of my links have been removed > following complaints to admim by an anonymous, German-speaking, > OCaml-using physicist with the IRC nic "tf" and all of my > corrections were removed by Mike Lin. My code examples remain > though. Mike has offered to reaccept your submission if it's more encyclopedia-style. However, I think your claim that you can do completely without type annotations is a bit misleading. You need some (module) types to give structure to your programs, and some types simply cannot be inferred (polymorphic record fields, for example).