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 wrote: > On 09/27/2013 11:55 AM, David MENTRE wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> 2013/9/27 Paolo Donadeo : >> >>> 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) > > > -- > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: > https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/**arc/caml-list > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/**ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-**bugs >