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=AWL 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 633F7BC69 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:25:29 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAP+QZ0fAXQInh2dsb2JhbACCNY1MAQEBCAopmWY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,180,1196636400"; d="scan'208";a="20473489" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 18 Dec 2007 18:25:29 +0100 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lBIHPSi3006066 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:25:28 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq4HAGuRZ0fUnw7XeGdsb2JhbACCNY0/DQEKBAYIBxqZZw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,180,1196636400"; d="scan'208";a="6982514" Received: from fhw-relay07.plus.net ([212.159.14.215]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 18 Dec 2007 18:25:27 +0100 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by fhw-relay07.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1J4gC7-0005gV-0y for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:25:27 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list Subject: Try finally revisited Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:16:32 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712181716.32677.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 47680288.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 camlp:01 frog:98 construct:02 library:03 revisited:05 core:09 obvious:10 example:10 ltd:87 products:86 chuck:13 enough:14 www:84 language:15 I just had a blindingly obvious thought: If the core OCaml language is now stable enough that it is not viable to chuck the try..finally construct into the language, is there any chance it could be put into the camlp4 library which, for example, already provides list comprehensions? -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e