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From: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com>
To: Tiago Dionizio <tngd81@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be>,
	"O'Caml Mailing List" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Poly variants
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:30:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <891bd339041217113059c3998e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c5a3ec0104121710457e24def4@mail.gmail.com>

Egad!  I wish someone had announced this!  Our code uses all sorts of
lower-case variants.  Is there a serious possibility of this going
away?  And if so, why?  And if so, wouldn't a warning of some kind
have been appropriate?

y


On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:45:23 +0000, Tiago Dionizio <tngd81@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:24:13 +0100 (CET), Christophe TROESTLER
> <Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >         Objective Caml version 3.08.2
> > # `a;;
> > - : [> `a ] = `a
> >
> > Is the lack of capitalisation in the tag-name really wanted?
> 
> http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/htmlman/manual011.html
> 
> Note on variant tags: the current implementation accepts lowercase
> variant tags in addition to uppercase variant tags, but we suggest you
> avoid lowercase variant tags for portability and compatibility with
> future OCaml versions.
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-17 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-17 18:24 Christophe TROESTLER
2004-12-17 18:45 ` [Caml-list] " Tiago Dionizio
2004-12-17 19:05   ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-12-18  1:04     ` skaller
2004-12-17 19:30   ` Yaron Minsky [this message]
2004-12-17 19:43     ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-12-17 20:11       ` Yaron Minsky
2004-12-17 21:00         ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-12-17 21:36           ` Yaron Minsky
2004-12-17 22:50     ` Damien Doligez
2004-12-18  1:29     ` Jacques Garrigue

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