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 PAA02924; Tue, 25 May 2004 15:37:40 +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 PAA02950 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 15:37:38 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from gatekeeper.elmer.external.excelhustler.com (gatekeeper.excelhustler.com [68.99.114.105]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4PDbaEV016856 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 15:37:37 +0200 Received: from chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (unknown [192.168.0.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com", Issuer "excelhustler.com" (not verified)) by gatekeeper.elmer.external.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D28FE008C; Tue, 25 May 2004 08:37:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442395C063; Tue, 25 May 2004 08:37:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com ([192.168.0.12]) by localhost (chatterbox [192.168.0.12]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTP id 17010-03; Tue, 25 May 2004 08:37:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wile.internal.excelhustler.com (wile.internal.excelhustler.com [192.168.1.34]) by chatterbox.elmer.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE0355C00B; Tue, 25 May 2004 08:37:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: by wile.internal.excelhustler.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D287E10056; Tue, 25 May 2004 08:37:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 08:37:24 -0500 From: John Goerzen To: skaller Cc: Alex Baretta , Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] unix.chop_extension Message-ID: <20040525133724.GK21749@excelhustler.com> References: <1085429093.6065.336.camel@pelican.wigram> <40B307F7.6060405@baretta.com> <1085477754.6065.490.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1085477754.6065.490.camel@pelican.wigram> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at excelhustler.com X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 40B34C20.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 chop:01 2004:99 2004:99 baretta:01 chop:01 terrible:01 regexps:01 ocaml-only:01 ffau:99 licenced:01 lgpl:01 distro:01 extlib:01 ocaml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:35:55PM +1000, skaller wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 18:46, Alex Baretta wrote: > > skaller wrote: > > > # Filename.chop_extension "x.y/z";; > > > - : string = "x" > > > > > > This is a terrible consequence of not having (* functional *) support > > for regexps in the language or standard library. > > Which gets back to the Cathedral/Bazaar problem: > there are plenty of people including me with > reentant Ocaml-only FFAU licenced solutions. > We could probably even agree on a spec, implementation, > and Ocaml LGPL+X licence .. but could we get that solution > into the standard distro? Perhaps you could get it into Extlib or, if it uses C, into Annexlib? -- John ------------------- 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