From: Manos Renieris <er@cs.brown.edu>
To: Serge <serge@shade.msu.ru>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Worsening standard library
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:31:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041103223150.GC29579@cs.brown.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10411032359200.17861-100000@shade.msu.ru>
read_int
read_line
read_float
are all in Pervasives.
-- Manos
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:11:08AM +0300, Serge wrote:
>
> Gentlemen!
>
> I think this might be kinda offtopic, but nevertheless. OCaml is being
> extensively employed for educational purposes, and it looks like it is
> still missing an important feature - the one of easy reading numbers
> (integers/floats/doubles) from, say, standard input. You have to read
> lines and parse numbers out of them. For instance, in Pascal it was
> possible to do "read(x)".
>
> Absence of such feature distracts people from trying to program sensible
> things in OCaml. It would be nice to have such functionality in the
> standard library.
>
> 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.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Serge S. Bityukov, Moscow State University, Dept of Mechanics and Mathematics
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-03 22:32 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 ` [Caml-list] " David Brown
2004-11-03 21:37 ` Serge
2004-11-03 22:31 ` Manos Renieris [this message]
2004-11-03 23:22 ` sejourne_kevin
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