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 TAA12116; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:25:58 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA11291 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:25:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from fichte.ai.univie.ac.at (fichte.ai.univie.ac.at [131.130.174.156]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g16IPuT15263 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:25:56 +0100 (MET) Received: (from markus@localhost) by fichte.ai.univie.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id TAA32432 for caml-list@inria.fr; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:25:56 +0100 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:25:55 +0100 From: Markus Mottl To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] syntax foo Message-ID: <20020206182555.GA32204@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> Mail-Followup-To: caml-list@inria.fr References: <20020205212131.GA1707@marant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i Organization: Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Brian Rogoff wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, [iso-8859-15] J=E9r=F4me Marant wrote: > > People who want a Haskell-like syntax will have to go for Haskell or >=20 > The syntactic differences between Haskell and OCaml are insignificant > beside the semantic ones. This is definitely not true: Haskell is sensitive to layout, which alone makes it very different from a syntactic point of view. Though this lets Haskell-programs look very nice to the human eye, it also makes other things more difficult, e.g. using preprocessors or automatic code generation. The parser is also more difficult to implement. Regards, Markus Mottl --=20 Markus Mottl markus@oefai.at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.oefai.at/~markus ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr