Raphael Collet wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On a very sympathetic note: grasping Oz also took me some time (but it >> has totally paid off) and I cannot help thinking that there could have >> been a significant learning speedup were the tutorial clearer at some >> very critical points, i.e. those related to logic programming and search, >> especially spaces. > > A tutorial is not a reference book. Spaces were never intended to be > shown to users. You have to know about spaces if you write your own > search engine, otherwise you should not care about them.
It seems that there are many people (myself included) for whom this approach is not really suited. We appreciate the importance of abstraction -- i.e. not having to *depend* on how a feature works -- but are still very uncomfortable about using a feature without *knowing* how it works. > The best document on computation spaces is Christian's book: > Programming Constraint Services. Yes, but that is a reference rather than a tutorial. -- David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _________________________________________________________________________________ mozart-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-users
