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 mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6C8BC6C for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:48:56 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAAovkEfAXQImh2dsb2JhbACQFgEBAQgKKZx+ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,216,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="6906018" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 18 Jan 2008 13:48:56 +0100 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m0ICmtiT013814 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:48:56 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAFYukEdQRFuw/2dsb2JhbACtUA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,216,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="21474013" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 18 Jan 2008 13:48:56 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JFqeU-0003Pg-Ts for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:48:54 +0000 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:48:54 +0000 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: What is the status of "Language extensions"? Message-ID: <20080118124854.GA13051@annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 4790A037.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; recursive:01 recursive:01 modules:02 modules:02 caml:02 api:02 api:02 chapter:04 depends:04 problem:05 manual:06 manual:06 inria:06 docs:07 red:92 I'm designing an API which at the moment depends on recursive modules, described in section 7.9 of "Language extensions": http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual021.html I could design it so that it didn't use recursive modules, although it wouldn't be as satisfactory. If recursive modules were removed from the language later, that would also be a big problem for users of my API. So what is the status of chapter 7 (Language extensions) in the manual? Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat