From: "Bünzli Daniel" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: caml-list List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: OCaml's formatting libraries
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:32:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <92C50802-AFEE-4CD4-9F47-FBC9BCABC7A1@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071109180948.GA15291@yquem.inria.fr>
Le 9 nov. 07 à 19:09, Pierre Weis a écrit :
> In conclusion, I have to correct the runtime compatibility check for
> formats
> to suppress the problem, and remove any mention of positional
> parameters from
> the documentation, until I achieve the new type checking stuff for
> format
> strings.
A question I have is why caml's formatting libraries were not
deprecated in favor of an implementation using Danvy's functional
unparsing [1]. This approach doesn't require an extension to the type
system and if I read correctly these results [2] it seems at least as
efficient as the current implementation. Scanf seems also doable [3].
The less complexity there is in the type system the safer we are in
the end.
Best,
Daniel
[1] http://www.brics.dk/RS/98/12/
[2] http://tkb.mpl.com/~tkb/software/misc/cpsio-test.pdf
[3] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2002/04/156ee5ae044ee4ff06ff988b384be6c2.fr.html
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-08 14:17 Search for the smallest possible possible Ocaml segfault Till Varoquaux
2007-11-08 15:00 ` [Caml-list] " Jean-Christophe Filliâtre
2007-11-08 15:17 ` Till Varoquaux
2007-11-08 15:55 ` Adrien
2007-11-08 16:05 ` Alain Frisch
2007-11-08 16:30 ` Feature request (was Re: [Caml-list] Search for the smallest possible possible Ocaml segfault....) Martin Jambon
2007-11-08 18:23 ` Martin Jambon
2007-11-08 16:07 ` [Caml-list] Search for the smallest possible possible Ocaml segfault Jeremy Yallop
2007-11-08 16:11 ` Jeremy Yallop
2007-11-08 16:17 ` Till Varoquaux
2007-11-08 17:02 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2007-11-08 17:10 ` Till Varoquaux
2007-11-08 17:02 ` Pascal Zimmer
2007-11-08 17:12 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-08 17:11 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-08 17:13 ` Zheng Li
2007-11-08 17:55 ` [Caml-list] STOP (was: Search for the smallest possible possible Ocaml segfault) Xavier Leroy
2007-11-08 18:11 ` Tom Primožič
2007-11-08 18:23 ` [Caml-list] STOP Robert Fischer
2007-11-08 19:01 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2007-11-08 18:31 ` [Caml-list] STOP (was: Search for the smallest possible possible Ocaml segfault) Till Varoquaux
2007-11-08 19:06 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-09 18:09 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-10 14:32 ` Bünzli Daniel [this message]
2007-11-10 14:58 ` [Caml-list] OCaml's formatting libraries Jon Harrop
2007-11-10 15:43 ` Bünzli Daniel
2007-11-10 19:13 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-13 9:22 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-13 9:13 ` Pierre Weis
2007-11-13 8:53 ` Pierre Weis
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