From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E15D3BB81 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:36:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBHLasnv015190 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:36:54 +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 WAA14550 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:36:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.200]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBHLarAL015181 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:36:53 +0100 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 55so104214wri for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:36:52 -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=nvrBOJtBT0uEHSQVvgZvjJNZSx6mhTrUziLoo2P+RXwjKko6G9SHZPZM9/Bsx/9xmxpfzRFw026GTSnYdw58MHQp2bZZtDQvmQ8gu+afifCK8Xb5P34yHVhR+ikFVgQIas2sp7oNoC0R28q7ZbcBVkcfTW27N0oEwEicyZKxnZw= Received: by 10.54.44.75 with SMTP id r75mr42935wrr; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:36:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.2.73 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:36:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <891bd339041217133648f063e0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:36:52 -0500 From: Yaron Minsky Reply-To: yminsky@cs.cornell.edu To: Christophe TROESTLER Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Poly variants Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20041217.220016.130320670.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <891bd339041217113059c3998e@mail.gmail.com> <20041217.204348.12647766.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> <891bd33904121712117449f55e@mail.gmail.com> <20041217.220016.130320670.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41C35176.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41C35175.000 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 christophe:01 troestler:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 umh:01 wrote:01 yaron:01 minsky:01 yminsky:01 wrote: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: On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:00:16 +0100 (CET), Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Yaron Minsky wrote: > > > > 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 [...] > > I agree -- I personally would wish that the back tick only > distinguishes between normal and polymorphic variant constructors. More like we disagree... I see the point, but it seems fairly trivial compared to breaking existing code. I vote nay to the change. (luckily, ocaml is not a democracy.) y