From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id IAA23320; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:05:41 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA23749 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:05:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from spoon.trix.com (spoon.trix.com [209.75.99.171]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f3565dv13339 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:05:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from davidb by spoon.trix.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14l2tm-0000FC-00 for ; Wed, 04 Apr 2001 23:05:38 -0700 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 23:05:38 -0700 From: David Brown Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] semi-colons and begin Message-ID: <20010404230538.A918@trix.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010404142255.0338a1c0@shell16.ba.best.com> <01040500584807.00489@ice> <4.3.2.7.2.20010404162926.033b0c00@shell16.ba.best.com> <15051.47224.795222.890002@marr.ius.cs.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr