Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Future of ExtLib

[Yamagata Y. <yor...@mb...>]

From: "Nicolas Cannasse" <war...@fr...>
Subject: Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Future of ExtLib
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 11:20:18 +0100

> It's not an easy jump, and I'm little concerned
> about the problems that extlib incompabilities (such as different exception
> policy) will show in 3rd party librairies that the user will not be able to
> modify in order to use with ExtLib...

Perhaps many people would want to stay with old stdlib because of
the stability issue, and just because it is easier.

Concerning libraries, I want my library depend to Extlib.  But if a
user have to switch to new stdlib just for using my library, then I
feel it is too much to ask.

> Concerning diet set/map, I'm not sure I understand for what kind of general
> purpose they're useful ?

Diet uses less memory for sets which contain large intervals, but I
agree that it may not be especially useful for the general use.

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Yamagata Yoriyuki