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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@exomi.com>
Cc: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr, briand@aracnet.com
Subject: Re: Baffeld by manual (Was: [Caml-list] baffled by semicolon)
Date: 30 Aug 2004 21:07:21 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093864039.9955.46.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4132E487.2090606@exomi.com>

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 18:25, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:
> skaller wrote:

> >	e1 ; e2
> >
> >evaluates e1, then e2 (for side effects).
> >  
> >
> e1 is evaluated for side-effects, the value of e2 is the value of the 
> entire expression, it does not need to be of type unit.
> 
> You could think of ; as having the type unit -> 'a -> 'a

Yup, that's more correct -- sry for prior inaccuracy.

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-30 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-26  3:22 [Caml-list] baffled by semicolon briand
2004-08-26  3:30 ` David Brown
2004-08-26  4:18 ` Alex Valdez
2004-08-26  5:05   ` briand
2004-08-29  4:45     ` William Lovas
2004-08-30  7:12 ` Baffeld by manual (Was: [Caml-list] baffled by semicolon) Florian Hars
2004-08-30  8:06   ` skaller
2004-08-30  8:23     ` Radu Grigore
2004-08-30  8:25     ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2004-08-30 11:07       ` skaller [this message]

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