From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Compiler feature - useful or not?
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:43:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711151443.11860.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473C4E27.60506@mcmaster.ca>
On Thursday 15 November 2007 13:48, Jacques Carette wrote:
> Personally, I think the best situation would be if camlp4 were
> unnecessary. But there is a lot of PL research to be done before that's
> possible...
How much more PL research do we need to tell us that OCaml is crying out for
a "try .. finally" construct?
> - It splinters the language into dialects.
Fork the OCaml distribution instead of using camlp4.
There are now thousands of OCaml programmers dying for trivial additions like
this, many of whom would contribute if they could and a single forked dialect
would improve in practical terms much faster than the current OCaml is.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-15 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-13 23:41 Edgar Friendly
2007-11-14 0:08 ` [Caml-list] " Yaron Minsky
2007-11-14 0:21 ` Martin Jambon
2007-11-14 7:58 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-14 12:37 ` Alain Frisch
2007-11-14 13:56 ` Virgile Prevosto
2007-11-14 14:35 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-14 16:38 ` Alain Frisch
2007-11-14 18:43 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-14 19:19 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-15 6:29 ` Alain Frisch
2007-11-15 13:26 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-15 17:29 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-15 20:28 ` Fernando Alegre
2007-11-16 0:47 ` Brian Hurt
2007-11-15 22:37 ` Michaël Le Barbier
2007-11-15 22:24 ` Michaël Le Barbier
2007-11-16 0:30 ` Yaron Minsky
2007-11-16 1:51 ` Martin Jambon
2007-11-16 9:23 ` Alain Frisch
2007-11-16 14:17 ` rossberg
2007-11-16 15:08 ` Martin Jambon
2007-11-16 16:43 ` Martin Jambon
2007-11-16 16:46 ` Till Varoquaux
2007-11-16 17:27 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-16 17:47 ` Martin Jambon
2007-11-16 17:54 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-16 18:10 ` Fernando Alegre
2007-11-16 19:18 ` David Allsopp
2007-11-16 19:32 ` Fernando Alegre
2007-11-16 19:50 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-11-16 17:31 ` Fernando Alegre
2007-11-16 17:43 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-16 0:46 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-11-16 8:23 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-11-16 8:58 ` Jean-Christophe Filliâtre
2007-11-16 9:13 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-11-16 9:48 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-11-14 16:57 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-14 21:04 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-14 22:09 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-15 0:17 ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-11-15 6:23 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-15 10:53 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-11-15 13:48 ` Jacques Carette
2007-11-15 14:43 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2007-11-15 16:54 ` Martin Jambon
2007-11-14 16:09 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-14 16:20 ` Brian Hurt
2007-11-14 11:01 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-11-14 10:57 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-14 14:37 ` Zheng Li
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