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 E2C20BB81 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:30:58 +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 iBHJUwbb010241 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:30:58 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA11322 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:30:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.199]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBHJUvej002811 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:30:57 +0100 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 37so208380wra for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:30:56 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=Oq0iAAby1DlLQTrlKUiYIP7Hsc53dZ7+5HqP8bntd/y1TIiiG3DQkyHhfDo7nS1NZ0G1CS2AeMIEb8wAK21v32pge+xJ9mdUOwfSEj06lVRU/CkZ35aaFD8m8vk7y5Fkn3CjaKQqGqmFeegdPF5w8cUn/NJS28eU+wHYPCjYxdg= Received: by 10.54.6.79 with SMTP id 79mr492613wrf; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:30:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.2.73 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:30:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <891bd339041217113059c3998e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:30:56 -0500 From: Yaron Minsky Reply-To: yminsky@cs.cornell.edu To: Tiago Dionizio Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Poly variants Cc: Christophe TROESTLER , "O'Caml Mailing List" In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041217.192413.37282635.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41C333F2.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41C333F1.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; yaron:01 minsky:01 yminsky:01 caml-list:01 variants:01 variants:01 wrote:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 umh:01 wrote:01 ocaml:01 htmlman:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_BY_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: 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 wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:24:13 +0100 (CET), Christophe TROESTLER > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: > http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs >