From: Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler+ocaml@umons.ac.be>
To: padator@wanadoo.fr
Cc: OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] pattern matching and records vs tuples
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:00:02 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090414.180002.1031635372486642254.Christophe.Troestler+ocaml@umons.ac.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87skkbuxx8.fsf@aryx.cs.uiuc.edu>
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:12:19 -0500, Yoann Padioleau wrote:
>
> I've found that while records provide advantages over tuples,
> they also have disadvantages when it comes to evolution issues.
> If I decide to evolve code using a tuple type, for instance adding
> new information and so extend a 4-uple in a 5-uple, then the compiler
> will tell me all the places that I need to update, which is good.
> If I use records instead, and have 4 fields, and I want to add again
> some new information in a new field, then the way the compiler works
> right now will not help me at all.
See http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/31
Cheers,
ChriS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-14 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-14 14:12 Yoann Padioleau
2009-04-14 16:00 ` Christophe TROESTLER [this message]
2009-04-14 16:40 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-14 16:58 ` Yoann Padioleau
2009-04-14 20:01 ` Christophe Raffalli
2009-04-15 0:44 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-04-15 1:46 ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2009-04-15 2:37 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-04-15 2:40 ` Ashish Agarwal
2009-04-16 16:05 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-16 16:59 ` David Allsopp
2009-04-17 0:26 ` Jacques Garrigue
2009-04-17 21:12 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-15 7:41 ` blue storm
2009-04-15 9:30 ` Martin Jambon
2009-04-15 11:01 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-04-15 12:04 ` Martin Jambon
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