From: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com>
To: Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Poly variants
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:11:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <891bd33904121712117449f55e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041217.204348.12647766.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be>
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:43:48 +0100 (CET), Christophe TROESTLER
<Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> See e.g. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/appel92critique.html section 3,
> page 12. Other will certainly have more to say. (My original post
> was motivated by hitting such a "bug".)
I don't think the critique applies. Variant types can be
distinguished by the leading tick. Why do they need to be uppercased
as well? I suppose it would provide some extra visual uniformity with
ordinary variant types, but it hardly seems worth breaking existing
code for that.
y
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-17 20:11 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
2004-12-17 19:43 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-12-17 20:11 ` Yaron Minsky [this message]
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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