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From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: Serge <serge@shade.msu.ru>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Worsening standard library
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 13:21:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041103212136.GA22512@old.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10411032359200.17861-100000@shade.msu.ru>

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:11:08AM +0300, Serge wrote:

> I do not wish to start a rant like "let us include simplex method in the
> std since it is gravely important" etc., but I do think that _ability to
> read numbers from stdin in a standard way_ is very important for the
> language like OCaml - because students want it very much, and it is not
> ugly in any way.

Any reason not to use 'scanf'?

Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-03 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-03 21:11 Serge
2004-11-03 21:21 ` David Brown [this message]
2004-11-03 21:37   ` [Caml-list] " Serge
2004-11-03 22:31 ` Manos Renieris
2004-11-03 23:22 ` sejourne_kevin

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