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From: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr, Gabriel Kerneis <kerneis@pps.jussieu.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] F# weaknesses
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 12:45:30 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <750628.35610.qm@web111515.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081208200206.GB3630@kerneis.info>

Hi,

> I don't know how annoying the described weaknesses are
> in a dayly use but people wanting to switch from OCaml to F#
> should certainly take this into account. Did anyone tried F#
> and have some feedback to share about this issues?

I'm curious as well.  I've never used F#, but the fact that they've
removed functors and polymorphic variants -- two of the most
interesting Ocaml features -- gives me at first glance an impression
that F# is a castrated Ocaml.  (Though I understand that some
of these changes were necessary to integrate into the .Net world).

I would like to hear the other side: features new to F# that
would also be welcome in Ocaml, especially those that are not
implemented already by some Camlp4 extension.

Cheers,
Dario Teixeira






  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-08 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-08 20:02 Gabriel Kerneis
2008-12-08 20:45 ` Dario Teixeira [this message]
2008-12-08 23:52   ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-12-09  1:51     ` Jon Harrop

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