From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16ECCBC28 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:21:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iA3LLeXl001762 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:21:40 +0100 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 WAA17941 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:21:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.davidb.org (adsl-64-172-240-129.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [64.172.240.129]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iA3LLbEa019845 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:21:39 +0100 Received: from davidb by mail.davidb.org with local (Exim 4.42 #1 (Debian)) id 1CPSZU-0005sM-Vk; Wed, 03 Nov 2004 13:21:36 -0800 Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 13:21:36 -0800 From: David Brown To: Serge Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Worsening standard library Message-ID: <20041103212136.GA22512@old.davidb.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41894BE4.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41894BE1.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 caml-list:01 wrote:01 stdin:01 ocaml:01 std:02 let:03 library:03 ugly:03 serge:05 thu:05 standard:07 standard:07 dave:08 think:10 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: 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