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On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:41:13AM +0200, 'Mr. Herr' [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] wrote:
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> On 22.06.2015 20:00, Hendrik Boom [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] wrote:
> >
> >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:
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> 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.
Definitely missed it.
-- hendrik
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> If you use opam read about the opam switch command - you can switch to compiler versions.
I have used opam. Will investigate, thanks.
>
> /Str.