From: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
Message-Id: <199910061518.RAA00904@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Stdlib regularity
To: orodeh@cs.cornell.edu (Ohad Rodeh)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 17:18:42 +0100 (MET DST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910060925320.18180-100000@mojave.cs.cornell.edu> from "Ohad Rodeh" at Oct 6, 99 09:25:53 am
> I have used OCaml extensively in the past few years, and I've had
> some misgivings about the CAML standard library argument ordering. It
> is a little bit confusing and not standard. For example:
Although the standard library is quite ok, there are some (minor)
inconsistencies. What concerns my wishes for it, I'd love to see more
features (= functions or even modules).
At the moment I am not always linking against the standard library,
but I use own modules, which I have extended a bit, because I
need some important features all of the time (e.g. why is there no
"partition"-function in the set-module?).
What do you think about this proposal: why not put a version of the
standard library on the CVS-server of INRIA, where volunteers can
contribute extensions, replacements, new modules, etc.?
>From time to time, the maintainers of OCaml might want to take a look at
the diffs to the original library and merge some (all?) of the goodies
into the main branch. I can imagine that you have a lot of patches which
are just waiting to be uploaded...
Best regards,
Markus Mottl
-- Markus Mottl, mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at, http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl
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