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

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

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:39:51 +0900, "Nicolas Cannasse" <war...@fr...> writes:

> - in the beginning we asked for useful functions that should be added and we
> stated case-by-case which one should be or not. This is still "open" if you
> have idea.

IMHO, It should collect all useful standard library functionality,
whether this includes enhancing functionality of existing STD-lib
classes,

For instance, from
http://pauillac.inria.fr/cdk/newdoc/htmlman/cdk_toc.html

Why not grab the weak sets, weak arrays, weak hash tables?

There's also the entire 'The Extra Library', to use that as a starting
point? Bit vectors, String2, Trie, etc.

I'd rather have a baseline codebase that is enhanceable with new minor
features than have a codebase that is useless for minor things. There
should be someplace to collect enhancements to the STDLIB.

Would people be against attempting to import 'The Extra Library'
pretty much wholesale?

> - after that, I have looked at the CDK and didn't find anything more worth
> including (still need to look through the String2 module)

> > 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.)
> 
> We actually need a Set in a defonctorized style , and with a signature that
> looks more like Hashtbl ( with a default "empty" constructor that is using
> compare).

Why?

> 
> > If so, how do I get access to CVS? I've never used sourceforge.
> 
> You can get anonymous access, read this :
> http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=74666

Got it and downloaded... 

Scott