From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA04253 for caml-redistribution; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:23:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA18940 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:50:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA16393; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:50:22 +0100 (MET) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA00517; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:50:22 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19990128115022.00117@pauillac.inria.fr> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:50:22 +0100 From: Xavier Leroy To: Jon Moore , cullenx@earthlink.net Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: Suggestions References: <99012619350102.00506@maya> <199901271848.NAA17683@codex.cis.upenn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1 In-Reply-To: <199901271848.NAA17683@codex.cis.upenn.edu>; from Jon Moore on Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:48:19PM -0500 Sender: weis > > Gerd Stolpmann's suggestion that some kind of Corba integretation should be > > provided is a good one, I think. I'd have more luck using OCaml at > > work if I could hide it behind IDL. Has anyone investigated Corba or > > COM bindings for OCaml? > > I know similar efforts are ongoing for SML/NJ, and would love to see OCaml > have this too. I am currently working on a COM binding for OCaml. The development is going relatively smoothly so far. In particular, OCaml classes and objects provide a good match for COM's interfaces -- nicer than what they have to do in Haskell due to lack of OO support. However, some problems remain, not the least of which being writing a parser for this #$^#!! Microsoft IDL language, which seems to double in size approximately every year. Stay tuned, - Xavier Leroy