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From: Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com>
To: Siraaj Khandkar <siraaj@khandkar.net>
Cc: David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org>,
	Paolo Donadeo <p.donadeo@gmail.com>,
	 OCaml mailing list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] UFO (United Forces of OCaml)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:45:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMu2m2JbLjKK+mXkd_DyXFujrmMMvm8Xqk0=zf4V-jPhQWdZvw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5245B16D.9090101@khandkar.net>

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Gour, once the videos from the OCaml Meeting are posted online, you should
watch Anil's talk on OCaml Labs. He nicely explains that a large community
effort is well underway to address your proposals.


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Siraaj Khandkar <siraaj@khandkar.net>wrote:

> On 09/27/2013 11:55 AM, David MENTRE wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> 2013/9/27 Paolo Donadeo <p.donadeo@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> But, regarding the specific case of the
>>> "extended library", there aren't many libraries, but only two:
>>> Batteries and Core. And I think both of them have very strong points,
>>> and the design is quite different.
>>>
>>
>> Is there a short document somewhere explaining those design differences?
>>
>>
> I haven't seen a document comparing the goals of both directly, but
> individually each project stated differing goals:
>
> - Batteries aims to be a compatible _extension_ of stdlib (so minimal or
> no changes required for code already using stdlib)
>
> - Core is an incompatible _replacement_ for stdlib, aiming to take the
> greatest advantage of the type system (existing code would have to be
> updated to use Core's API)
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-27 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-27  7:11 Gour
2013-09-27 11:20 ` Török Edwin
2013-09-27 12:04   ` Yaron Minsky
2013-09-27 12:15     ` Paolo Donadeo
2013-09-27 15:55       ` David MENTRE
2013-09-27 16:25         ` Siraaj Khandkar
2013-09-27 16:45           ` Ashish Agarwal [this message]
2013-09-27 12:13   ` Gour
2013-09-27 11:25 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2013-09-30  1:40 ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-30  6:01   ` Gour
2013-09-30  6:33     ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-30 14:14   ` Sylvain Le Gall
2013-09-27 17:08 Damien Guichard
2013-09-27 18:58 ` Gour

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