Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Exceptions and Complexity

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

> I entirely agree with you... Yet my concern is that because the code we
> include in the ext-lib uses *a different* convention for the semantics
> attached to the use of extensions,  the OCaml team may have a harder
> time when deciding whether to include them or not in the stdlib. But
> then, maybe we can "suggest" them what a nice thing would be to start
> including more meaningful exceptions into the stdlib!

As said before, I doubt that the extlib will be one day integrated into the
OCaml Stdlib... so I would prefer to have the "le's create another StdLib
with more functions" as goal for the ExtLib.

> BTW, if I were an active OCaml implementor, I'd be "eavesdropping" into
> this list so see how things went around here... So although the list's
> recipients are "non-disclosed", and I don't remember any of them
> answering to the list, I guess they are in fact following the progress
> of this thing just in case... Can I "cry to the void" and ask if anybody
> from the implementor's list is around just to be aware of it?

There is, there is.
Maxence, although not a member of the "Great Ocaml Fathers", is working at
INRIA and as been writting several great tools, ocamldoc among all (
although I dislike the usage of classes :-P )

Nicolas Cannasse