From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA19381; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 19:21:54 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA19183 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 19:21:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.25.148.40]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g73HHw508171 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 19:18:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id g73HHpSs006131 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 03:17:51 +1000 (EST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (ppp223.dyn26.pacific.net.au [61.8.26.223]) by wisma.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id DAA13162 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 03:17:50 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3D4C103B.1000604@ozemail.com.au> Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 03:17:47 +1000 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] Error messages in 3.05 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I've complained about hard to read error messages with unions, particularly polymorphic variants. Ocaml 3.05 has much better diagnostics! If there's a mismatch in variant tags, the compiler pinpoints the problem. This is much easier to work with -- quite a significant productivity improvement for me. Thanks! -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners