[Ocaml-lib-devel] Future and status of extlib?

[Scott A C. <sc...@cs...>]

Hello. I recently found a link to this project and I like the idea of
it. I hate reimplementing datastructures millions of times, so I'm
happy to see the existance of this project. I've got a couple of
questions and comments though..

First, is this forked library a derivative of CDK, so it includes all
of the enhancements of CDK STDLIB derivative?

Second, the few comments. 

IMHO, its better to have 3 very complete datastructure modules than
have 5 half-complete ones. As a user, I'd rather have 3 modules I can
use as-id, and implement two of my own than have to enhance 5 modules.

Also, may I suggest that we release all of the stable modules and
increment the patchlevel as soon as a new module is considered stable
and complete. (And we only release (Put all Dev modules into a
Stdlib.Dev submodule)



Anyways, I have an modified version of the current STDLIB Set
module. that supports Set.S.cardinal in constant time, I can improve
it so that you can index into a set to get the *n*th element cheaply,
and given an element can determine its index from the beginning. (This
is useful if you want to use a Set to link to another datastructure.)

Interested?

If so, how do I get access to CVS? I've never used sourceforge.

Scott