From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA06423; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:41:53 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA05863 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:41:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i7SAfnm4028684 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:41:51 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.200] (ppp212-216.lns2.syd3.internode.on.net [203.122.212.216]) by smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i7SAff4Y004451; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:11:48 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Alternative Bytecodes for OCaml From: skaller Reply-To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net To: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" Cc: caml-list In-Reply-To: <1093686634.16212.24.camel@qrnik> References: <200408250926.28629.jgoerzen@complete.org> <200408271349.25317.jgoerzen@complete.org> <1093639193.15255.1543.camel@pelican.wigram> <200408271556.44476.jgoerzen@complete.org> <1093652716.15255.1636.camel@pelican.wigram> <1093685746.16212.21.camel@qrnik> <1093686634.16212.24.camel@qrnik> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Message-Id: <1093689700.15255.1857.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 28 Aug 2004 20:41:41 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4130616E.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 bytecodes:01 sourceforge:01 2004:99 marcin:01 'qrczak':01 kowalczyk:01 marcin:01 'qrczak':01 kowalczyk:01 doable:01 generically:01 9660:01 glebe:01 ocaml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 19:50, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: > W liście z sob, 28-08-2004, godz. 11:35 +0200, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk > napisał: > > > Exceptions are also doable, in such a way that they are wrapped and > > unwrapped automatically. > > I meant: except in C++, which doesn't provide a way to generically wrap > an exception of an unknown type in an object of a known representation. The problem here is: if you have a universal architecture, such as JVM or CLR -- it defeats some of the most important reasons to choose one language over another, which is often the novel architecture. -- John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net voice: 061-2-9660-0850, snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners