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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] OCaml Standard Recommandation Process
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:58:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801281958.01875.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95513600801280851x728c1fa8ta0ba67c902c0aa7c@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 28 January 2008 16:51:17 Olivier Andrieu wrote:
> It's basically the same. But with "use" (or "using" in C#), you don't
> have to write the "with_open_in" wrapper in the first place because
> the finalizing function is implicit, it's the method called "Dispose".

Exactly.

> Using this scheme with OCaml would mean that any resource-using
> datatype has to be an object (not really the case right now).

Well, anything that wanted to exploit this would need to be an object. We 
could provide a completely new interface and also maintain backwards 
compatibility.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-28 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-27 13:23 David Teller
2008-01-27 13:52 ` [Caml-list] " Paolo Donadeo
2008-01-27 14:24 ` Yaron Minsky
2008-01-27 19:07   ` David Teller
2008-01-27 21:07     ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-27 21:47       ` Yaron Minsky
2008-01-28 11:06         ` David Teller
2008-01-28 12:04         ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-28 12:31           ` David Teller
2008-01-28 14:23           ` Brian Hurt
2008-01-28 15:15             ` Loup Vaillant
2008-01-28 15:40               ` Brian Hurt
2008-01-28 19:46                 ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-28 15:25             ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-28 16:06               ` Christophe TROESTLER
2008-01-28 16:20                 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-01-28 16:45                   ` Christophe TROESTLER
2008-01-28 16:51                     ` Olivier Andrieu
2008-01-28 19:58                       ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2008-01-29  7:51                   ` Gordon Henriksen
2008-01-28 20:49                 ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-28 22:05                   ` Till Varoquaux
2008-01-28 23:10                     ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-28 16:37               ` Brian Hurt
2008-01-28 17:30                 ` David Teller
2008-01-28 20:43                   ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-28 21:12                   ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-01-28 21:39                     ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-29 16:49                       ` Edgar Friendly
2008-01-30  8:52                         ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-30 10:02                           ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-01-30 12:12                           ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-01-28 21:43                     ` [Caml-list] " Dario Teixeira
2008-01-29  7:59                       ` Francois Pottier
2008-01-28 22:07                 ` Arnaud Spiwack
2008-01-27 14:36 ` Michaël Grünewald
2008-01-27 15:10 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-01-28 13:38   ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-28 13:52     ` [Caml-list] " David Teller
2008-01-28  0:23 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2008-01-30  9:43 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-30 20:25   ` [Caml-list] " blue storm
2008-01-30 20:49     ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-30 20:54       ` [Caml-list] " Eric Cooper

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