https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1512.01897/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15573431urn:hackerpapers:mention:1512.01897:15573431Sat, 28 Oct 2017 00:58:41 GMT<p>I can assure you that the OCaml maintainers do appreciate the value of friendly error messages, despite your drive-by comments about our ethos. However, unfinished patches cannot be merged into our mainline tree, and this PR https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/102 needs some attention to rebase it to trunk, and also to get feedback from testers who may have tried the opam switch and have comments. (associated writeup https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01897) Help welcome on this particular patch, and other newer ones from Reason that can be ported over to OCaml and submitted as normal feature…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1512.01897/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.PL