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
next prev parent 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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