Re: Where we headed?

On 4 June 2013 22:14, Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> wrote:

> In this particular case, an XSL-FO formatter, I'd probably go with F#. It's
> impure, which is practical. It's got great support for concurrency and
> parallelism, and pretty good support for actors if you chose that. And there
> are pluses like Units of Measure (
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233243.aspx), so you could have
> the compiler actually help make sure that when you're doing calculations
> with FO areas etc with dimensioned numbers, that you're not mixing apples
> and oranges.


IMHO it would make more sense to rationalise the units and disallow
mixing them. Ditto with colours. Following CSS here never made
sense to me.

regards


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