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 4B0D5BB81 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:02:02 +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 iBHL21Ok021108 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:02:01 +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 WAA14177 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:02:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from hedwig1.umh.ac.be (hedwig2.umh.ac.be [193.190.193.73]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBHL1sni011840 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:02:01 +0100 Received: from poincare (mail@poincare.swapping.umh.ac.be [10.102.100.117]) by hedwig1.umh.ac.be (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iBHL3AIY913618; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:03:11 +0100 Received: from poincare ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=trch) by poincare with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CfPD4-00052X-00; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:00:22 +0100 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:00:16 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <20041217.220016.130320670.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> To: yminsky@cs.cornell.edu, yminsky@gmail.com Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Poly variants From: Christophe TROESTLER In-Reply-To: <891bd33904121712117449f55e@mail.gmail.com> References: <891bd339041217113059c3998e@mail.gmail.com> <20041217.204348.12647766.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> <891bd33904121712117449f55e@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Universite de Mons-Hainaut (http://math.umh.ac.be/an/) X-Spook: SSL counter terrorism mailbomb JUWTF enigma afsatcom Dateline SDI espionage national information infrastructure X-Blessing: Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Pema Siddhi Hum X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux (http://www.linux.org/) X-Mailer-URL: http://www.mew.org/ X-Mailer: Mew version 4.1 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41C34949.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41C34942.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 variants:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 umh:01 yaron:01 minsky:01 yminsky:01 wrote:01 constructors:01 ...:98 polymorphic:01 poly:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Yaron Minsky wrote: > > I don't think the critique applies. Variant types can be > distinguished by the leading tick. Why do they need to be > uppercased as well? I suppose it would provide some extra visual > uniformity with [...] I agree -- I personally would wish that the back tick only distinguishes between normal and polymorphic variant constructors. ChriS