From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB69BC69 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:45:53 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAKJ9BEfAXQImh2dsb2JhbACOOAEBCQon X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,229,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="17287753" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 04 Oct 2007 14:45:53 +0200 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l94CjmXb006388 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:45:52 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CACp9BEfUVZgL/2dsb2JhbAA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,229,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3747404" Received: from hades.snarc.org ([212.85.152.11]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 04 Oct 2007 14:45:52 +0200 Received: by hades.snarc.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BB85B1B482; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:45:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:45:49 +0200 To: David Allsopp Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unsoundness is essential Message-ID: <20071004124549.GA24788@snarc.org> References: <1191461066.7542.48.camel@rosella.wigram> <018201c80679$86a2ba00$017ca8c0@countertenor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <018201c80679$86a2ba00$017ca8c0@countertenor> X-Warning: Email may contain unsmilyfied humor and/or satire. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) From: tab@snarc.org (Vincent Hanquez) X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 4704E07C.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; 0100,:01 ocaml:01 bindings:01 cheers:01 worn:98 wrote:01 exception:01 caml-list:01 bugs:03 novelty:04 thu:05 dump:06 vincent:07 vincent:07 core:09 On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:26:53PM +0100, David Allsopp wrote: > Personally, whenever I go back to C, the novelty of the relaxed type > system is instantly worn away on the first tricky-to-repeat core dump... at > least an Ocaml exception has a cat in hell's chance of being found > systematically! That's sadly not true. GC bugs in some bindings are usually hard to find ! Cheers, -- Vincent Hanquez