Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] ExtLib v0.1

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> I don't know how other people feel, but to me, the short names in
> String (ftos, stoi, stof) look very ugly.

I agree :)

> String.to_float, String.to_int, and String.to_float seem much better,
> and more consistent with the choices in the standard library.

Perhaps, but don't forget to add the Ext in front.
It's important because will users really write :  ExtString.to_float or
prefer to open ExtString ( and in this case usage of to_float without
namespace is meaningless ) and perhaps then for full qualified names we
could just name the modules EString, EHashtbl or maybe XString, XHashtbl,
etc... for fully qualified easy path access.

> An Int module with things like Int.of_string = int_of_string also
> sounds like a good idea, I'm tired of moving between Int32.t's and
> int's and having to change all sorts of functions.

Agree
If you're willing to write it fully ( MLI spec + doc + impl )....

Nicolas Cannasse