Ah! Okay, I guess I should have realized... just how I pronounce it anyway: Label.

Well, thanks. One less mystery in my world. :)

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> wrote:
Am 21.08.2012 23:10:56 schrieb(en) Anthony Tavener:

I've sometimes wondered this... but where does "Labl" come from in
LablGL/TK/GTK and now Lablwebkit?

OCaml bindings to libraries... but I'm not sure how to come to that prefix,
even invoking my limited French. Maybe it's obvious, but I've failed to see
it. Any hints? :)

Labl is from "label" in the same way as caml is from "camel"... This is just a silly joke. The Labl* libraries were the first using labeled arguments, and were origally written for a branch of ocaml implementing these labels for the first time, called "Objective Labl". This branch was later merged with trunk.

Gerd

PS. Of course, caml is an acronym and has nothing to do with camels.
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