From: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
To: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
Cc: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] stl?
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:05:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r61eyu5c.fsf@aryx.cs.uiuc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903031851530.7859@beast> (Brian Hurt's message of "Tue\, 3 Mar 2009 19\:11\:32 -0500 \(EST\)")
Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org> writes:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Jon Harrop wrote:
>
>> Functors give
>> you the same capability in OCaml but they are rarely used precisely because
>> the functionality is not very useful.
>
> I think I disagree with this. I think functors aren't used very much
> in Ocaml because:
0) they are intrusive! putting code inside a functor may entail the
need to modify also lots of related code. That's one of the worst
thing for a programming feature. Your modification can not be local. I
hate monad for the same reason, and I like ocaml exception mechanism,
and using sometimes global refs for the same reason.
> 1) They're a big, scary name, and
I'am a man, I am not scared.
> 2) They're slightly less efficient.
I don't care so much about that anyway.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-04 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-03 21:40 stl? Raoul Duke
2009-03-03 22:31 ` [Caml-list] stl? Yoann Padioleau
2009-03-03 22:42 ` Till Varoquaux
2009-03-03 23:36 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-04 0:13 ` Peng Zang
2009-03-04 0:58 ` Yoann Padioleau
2009-03-04 1:10 ` Raoul Duke
2009-03-04 1:19 ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2009-03-04 1:21 ` Yoann Padioleau
2009-03-04 1:29 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-04 14:26 ` Kuba Ober
2009-03-04 14:24 ` Kuba Ober
2009-03-03 23:42 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-04 0:11 ` Brian Hurt
2009-03-04 1:05 ` Yoann Padioleau [this message]
2009-03-04 4:56 ` Brian Hurt
2009-03-04 20:11 ` Yoann Padioleau
2009-03-04 21:59 ` Brian Hurt
2009-03-04 22:42 ` Yoann Padioleau
2009-03-04 23:19 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-04 23:03 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-11 3:16 ` Brian Hurt
2009-03-11 5:57 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-03-11 6:11 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-03-04 1:59 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-04 6:11 ` Brian Hurt
2009-03-04 14:08 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2009-03-04 14:19 ` Peng Zang
2009-03-04 16:14 ` Brian Hurt
2009-03-04 16:35 ` Andreas Rossberg
2009-03-04 16:40 ` Peng Zang
2009-03-04 21:43 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2009-03-05 11:24 ` Wolfgang Lux
2009-03-04 19:45 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-04 21:23 ` Brian Hurt
2009-03-04 23:17 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-05 2:26 ` stl? Stefan Monnier
2009-03-04 3:10 ` [Caml-list] stl? Martin Jambon
2009-03-04 6:18 ` Brian Hurt
2009-03-04 16:35 ` Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen
2009-03-04 16:48 ` Yoann Padioleau
2009-03-04 20:07 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-04 20:31 ` Richard Jones
2009-03-04 20:49 ` Yoann Padioleau
2009-03-04 21:20 ` Andreas Rossberg
2009-03-04 21:51 ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2009-03-04 22:50 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-04 23:18 ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2009-03-05 1:31 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-05 2:15 ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2009-03-05 3:26 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-05 6:22 ` yoann padioleau
2009-03-05 7:02 ` Raoul Duke
2009-03-05 8:07 ` Erick Tryzelaar
2009-03-05 9:06 ` Richard Jones
2009-03-05 9:34 ` malc
2009-03-05 9:56 ` Richard Jones
2009-03-05 10:49 ` malc
2009-03-05 11:16 ` Richard Jones
2009-03-05 12:39 ` malc
2009-03-05 19:39 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-05 21:10 ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2009-03-05 22:41 ` Richard Jones
2009-03-05 22:53 ` malc
2009-03-05 8:59 ` Richard Jones
2009-03-05 17:50 ` Raoul Duke
2009-03-05 8:17 ` Kuba Ober
2009-03-05 1:06 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-05 9:09 ` Richard Jones
2009-03-05 20:44 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-05 20:50 ` Jake Donham
2009-03-05 21:28 ` [Caml-list] OCaml's intermediate representations Jon Harrop
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