Re: [Caml-list] Let-less syntax for coreML

2012-01-04 Thread Daniel Bünzli
The underlying question is how to make ML mainstream which is what the Am I the only one to be very, very, very, tired of this question ? There's an obvious thing missing in the list of what has been tried. Well-done and maintained libraries you can use for about any programming task you have

Re: [Caml-list] Let-less syntax for coreML

2012-01-04 Thread Edgar Friendly
On 01/04/2012 08:30 AM, Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons wrote: I think the biggest thing the community can do to improve OCaml is not to tweak around with language design. It's to improve the library packaging situation. Then just do it. I have, and the result is odb[1]. It

Re: [Caml-list] Let-less syntax for coreML

2012-01-04 Thread Markus Mottl
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 07:18, Yaron Minsky ymin...@janestreet.com wrote: I think the biggest thing the community can do to improve OCaml is not to tweak around with language design.  It's to improve the library packaging situation.  Oasis seems to be the effort in this direction that has the

Re: [Caml-list] Let-less syntax for coreML

2012-01-04 Thread Damien Doligez
On 2012-01-04, at 14:30, Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons wrote: Mmm... I didn't request or even suggest a syntax change. I only asked what potential issues it could create. Here is one: as far as I can tell, it cannot be parsed by an LALR(1) parser. -- Damien -- Caml-list mailing list.

oasis (was Re: [Caml-list] Let-less syntax for coreML)

2012-01-04 Thread Daniel Bünzli
On 4 January 2012 13:18, Yaron Minsky ymin...@janestreet.com wrote: I think the biggest thing the community can do to improve OCaml is not to tweak around with language design.  It's to improve the library packaging situation.  Oasis seems to be the effort in this direction that has the most

Re: [Caml-list] Let-less syntax for coreML

2012-01-03 Thread Alan Schmitt
On 3 janv. 2012, at 19:43, Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons wrote: - equational style 'let f x y = x + y' : forbid This seems a bit extreme. Alan -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list:

Re: [Caml-list] Let-less syntax for coreML

2012-01-03 Thread Wojciech Meyer
Hi, Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons dofp.oc...@gmail.com writes:     List, I was wondering if there was any obstruction to the removal of the let keyword in a syntax for coreML. My reasoning is that because everytime there is a let there is also an = sign, we could completely remove the