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On 22.06.2015 20:00, Hendrik Boom [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 02:40:20PM +0000, Dario Teixeira [email protected]
> [ocaml_beginners] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > > I see. It seems like a bizarre language restriction, but I suppose
> > > I'll have to live with it. One of the joys of OCaml was always that it
> > > *didn't* have this kind of restriction.
> >
> >
> > Then you'll be happy to know that the current OCaml SVN trunk already
> > supports inline records for constructor arguments, just as you wanted!
> > See the link below for the full discussion:
> > http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5528
>
> Yes, it is good to hear that.
>
> But evidently the version that arrived on my computer with Debian isn't
> that up-to-date. I have ocalm 4.01.0-5. How should I go about
> replacing it with the new one; where to get the new one; other
> questions of that nature?
>
> Or is it likely to reach Debian in a few days anyway?
>
> Ah. 4.02.1-3 is probably the one I want, and It's already in
> Debian experimental, marked as "experimental (rc-buggy)". I wonder if
> "release-critical-buggy" is just what they say of every package in
> "experimental" or if there's some special proble here. I suppose I have
> to watch out for version skew with any other bits of ocaml I have lying
> around...
>
In case you overlooked it:
the link to Mantis says "fixed in 4.03.0", but we are at 4.02.2, released around June
16th,
so still a long way to go.
If you use opam read about the opam switch command - you can switch to compiler versions.
/Str.