From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] semi-colons and begin
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 23:05:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010404230538.A918@trix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15051.47224.795222.890002@marr.ius.cs.cmu.edu>; from mahamud@cs.cmu.edu on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:03:42PM -0400
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:03:42PM -0400, mahamud@cs.cmu.edu wrote:
> another minor point regarding syntax :
> the use of "(* ... *)" prevents one from passing the multiplication
> "*" operator as an argument (say to List.map2) without
> padding some space as in : ( * ) as opposed to (*).
> it's a small point, but i don't think i've come across such unintended
> interactions between comments and other constructs in other languages.
C does it to with division and pointers.
foo = bar/*ptr;
Dave Brown
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-05 6:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-04 21:33 Chris Hecker
2001-04-04 22:40 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2001-04-04 23:32 ` Chris Hecker
2001-04-05 1:03 ` mahamud
2001-04-05 3:48 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-05 6:05 ` David Brown [this message]
2001-04-06 9:33 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2001-04-05 3:35 ` Michael Hicks
2001-04-05 3:53 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-04-05 6:23 ` Mattias Waldau
2001-04-05 17:34 ` Pierre Weis
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