Re: Objective Caml 2.99 released

From: Damien Doligez (Damien.Doligez@inria.fr)
Date: Thu Dec 23 1999 - 19:09:01 MET


Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:09:01 +0100
From: Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>
Message-Id: <199912231809.TAA10525@tobago.inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Objective Caml 2.99 released

>From: skaller <skaller@maxtal.com.au>

> Question: I see no mention of support for ocaml coded
>finalisers. This is a feature that I heard might be supported,
>and would be very useful to me, implementing python __del__ methods
>in my ocaml based python interpreter, Viperi.
>Can someone tell me the status of this issue?

I know how to do it, it's just a matter of writing the code and the
doc. I certainly hope it will make it into version 3.0.

>[Should I wait, or cobble up my own solution?]

I'll send you a patch as soon as I have something that works, so
you'll have the feature sooner and I'll have some help in finding the
bugs...

-- Damien



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