From: David Thomas <david_hd@yahoo.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Annoying behaviour of OCaml
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:52:23 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <447544.64925.qm@web30511.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1199995657.47867b0972262@webmail.in-berlin.de>
--- Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Even if this would be the case, not what we expect
> is of importance, but what the documentation says.
> If there's a difference between documentation and
> bahaviour, then there is a bug (in the
documentation,
> or in the implementation, or both).
I disagree that expectations are of no importance.
Principle of least surprise and all that... Violation
of expectations is a bug not in documentation or
implementation, but design. That said, there may very
well be overriding concerns that force us to introduce
behavior contrary to expectations in certain instances
- it's one guideline of many.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-10 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-10 14:52 Thomas Fischbacher
2008-01-10 15:00 ` [Caml-list] " Jean-Christophe Filliâtre
2008-01-10 15:07 ` Berke Durak
2008-01-10 15:20 ` Eric Cooper
2008-01-10 15:29 ` Brian Hurt
2008-01-10 15:47 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2008-01-10 17:33 ` Christophe Raffalli
2008-01-10 20:07 ` Oliver Bandel
2008-01-10 21:52 ` David Thomas [this message]
2008-01-10 22:29 ` Oliver Bandel
2008-01-10 22:55 ` David Thomas
2008-01-10 23:02 ` Oliver Bandel
2008-01-10 23:00 ` Oliver Bandel
2008-01-10 15:32 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2008-01-10 19:49 ` Oliver Bandel
2008-01-10 19:48 ` Oliver Bandel
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