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From: "Bünzli Daniel" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: caml-list caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml's formatting libraries
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:43:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B68E6127-94F7-4C42-8D6C-EE613E99E47E@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711101458.04047.jon@ffconsultancy.com>


Le 10 nov. 07 à 15:58, Jon Harrop a écrit :

> Functional unparsing requires a lot more code,

It's a little bit less concise but I wouldn't say it is a *lot*.

> produces worse error messages,

Example please.

> is much harder to learn,

I don't think so. There really nothing hard in it, it is just ...  
different.

> is incompatible with the excellent Format module,

Which wouldn't prevent the design of a new format module.

> I'd much rather see effort put into visualization and GUI tools  
> rather than
> ASCII text tools...

I'd rather have a simple and correct type system.

Daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-10 15:48 UTC|newest]

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       ` OCaml's formatting libraries Bünzli Daniel
2007-11-10 14:58         ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-11-10 15:43           ` Bünzli Daniel [this message]
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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