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 C0437BB91 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:39:34 +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 j0AGdYVP002011 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:39:34 +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 RAA32015 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:39:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (use.the.admin.shell.to.set.your.reverse.dns.for.this.ip [80.68.91.176] (may be forged)) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0AGdXBi008685 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:39:33 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Co2Zl-00015N-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:39:29 +0000 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:39:28 +0000 Cc: "O'Caml Mailing List" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Thread safe Str Message-ID: <20050110163924.GA3534@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <20050109.203010.110660321.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> <20050110154917.GA4582@yquem.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050110154917.GA4582@yquem.inria.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41E2AFC6.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41E2AFC5.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 wrote:01 api:01 api:01 pairs:01 regexps:01 regexp:01 ocaml:01 u-tokyo:01 oiwa:01 ...:98 syntactic:01 thread:02 caml:02 seems:03 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 Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:49:17PM +0100, Xavier Leroy wrote: > The implementation work should be quite small indeed, but don't > underestimate the work needed to design the API. API design is harder > than it seems... But if a few persons on this list want to team up to > design an API, that would be wonderful indeed. (A small group is > better than individual designers in that several pairs of eyes spot > inconsistencies better.) Any chance of syntactic support for regexps in the language? (As in Perl and particularly Regexp/OCaml[1], for example). Rich. [1] http://web.yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~oiwa/pub/caml/regexp-pp-0.9.5.1/README.match-regexp --