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 QAA14292; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:07:03 +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 QAA14388 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:07:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp-2.syd.swiftdsl.com.au (smtp-2.syd.swiftdsl.com.au [218.214.224.98]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with SMTP id i7VE6xkE026725 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:07:00 +0200 Received: (qmail 9447 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2004 14:07:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO coltrane.mega-nerd.net) (218.214.64.136) by smtp-2.syd.swiftdsl.com.au with SMTP; 31 Aug 2004 14:07:17 -0000 Received: from coltrane (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by coltrane.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id B7BB07AD2 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 00:06:57 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 00:06:57 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cross-compiling OCaml Message-Id: <20040901000657.5c6c5fbe.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <200408310829.28253.jgoerzen@complete.org> References: <200408310829.28253.jgoerzen@complete.org> Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41348603.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 2004:99 complained:01 python:01 quux:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 nospam:97 wrote:03 wrote:03 library:03 library:03 stuff:05 aug:05 init:05 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:29:27 -0500 John Goerzen wrote: > Now, I have complained here on several occasions about the size of the > standard OCaml library compared to that of, say, Python. But I'm doing > something about it. (http://quux.org/devel/missinglib) John, Is there a push to get some of that stuff pushed into the standard library? I keep on finding things that I want to do again and again, which should be in the standard library but which seem to be missing. A couple of examples I have found are: - a function to find the intersection of two lists - a function to remove duplicate entries in a list I found the first as part of the MetaPRL project and wrote the second myself, but both operations are so common they should be part of the standard library. In the spirit of John's post, is there any thing I can do to help push functionality into the standard library? Cheers, Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo nospam@mega-nerd.com (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Oh my god! They killed init! You bastards! ------------------- 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