From: "David McClain" <dmcclain@azstarnet.com>
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Real excellent object oriented source code examples of Ocaml
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:43:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01e501c05332$9e924470$210148bf@dylan> (raw)
... in response to Xavier...
But as someone who learned to appreciate what CLOS had to offer over the
conventional Smalltalk style of OO, and as an avid user of OCaml, I have to
say that I really miss CLOS sometimes...
I have implemented several large OCaml programs, and I ended up using OO
only sparingly to support a simple hierarchy of COM/OLE encapsulator
objects. So I don't really have any particular example of need for CLOS. I
just miss its elegant beauty sometimes. Every now and again I sit and write
some Lisp/CLOS just so that I can enjoy the experience. Call me crazy, but I
love functional closures, pattern matching, efficient tail recursion, etc.,
etc. Of course some of these are missing in Common Lisp and so I also write
a great deal of OCaml just so I can experience its special pleasures...
- DM
next reply other threads:[~2000-11-21 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-20 20:43 David McClain [this message]
2000-11-21 16:49 ` Brian Rogoff
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2000-11-17 14:38 Don Syme
2000-11-19 15:48 ` Mattias Waldau
2000-11-17 12:14 STARYNKEVITCH Basile
2000-11-20 13:46 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-11-23 19:32 ` Anton Moscal
2000-11-28 14:12 ` Renaud.Rioboo
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