From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2CDFBB91 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:39:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0SEdD5K018855 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:39:14 +0100 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 PAA07264 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:39:12 +0100 (MET) Received: from alex.barettalocal.com (h213-255-109-130.albacom.net [213.255.109.130] (may be forged)) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0SEdCEE018849 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:39:12 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alex.barettalocal.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4FD2BB3DA for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:39:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41FA4E91.3070906@barettadeit.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:39:13 +0100 From: Alex Baretta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1 X-Accept-Language: it, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: '_a References: <1448756C-6FF9-11D9-8411-0003939A19AA@fas.harvard.edu> <20050127.095119.88330421.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> <1106818474.6734.152.camel@pelican.wigram> <20050128125423.GA26437@furbychan.cocan.org> In-Reply-To: <20050128125423.GA26437@furbychan.cocan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41FA4E92.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41FA4E90.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; baretta:01 caml-list:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 misfeature:01 baretta:01 signatures:01 exceptions:01 exceptions:01 tracing:01 alex:03 alex:03 370:96 370:96 srl:05 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: Richard Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:13:40PM +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > >>What about the possibility to include possible exceptions into a function >>signature (a la java)? > > > That's one of the most annoying features of Java. Let's not copy it. > > Rich. > The misfeature is the complexity explosion which tracing exceptions in function signatures causes. I don't want to have to deal with that. Alex -- ********************************************************************* http://www.barettadeit.com/ Baretta DE&IT A division of Baretta SRL tel. +39 02 370 111 55 fax. +39 02 370 111 54 Our technology: The Application System/Xcaml (AS/Xcaml) The FreerP Project