From: Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
To: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: Tim Freeman <tim@fungible.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why are type functions postfix?
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:38:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020823123832.GA940@iliana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020823112404.C28346@pauillac.inria.fr>
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 11:24:04AM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> > In OCAML and other ML dialects I've used, you say:
> >
> > let x: int ref = ref 3
> >
> > Is there any reason that type functions like the first "ref" are
> > postfix, unlike function application like the second "ref" that is
> > prefix?
>
> I think it's mostly historical: the original LCF ML used the postfix
> syntax, and this syntax was kept in SML as well as in Caml.
Is it not because in the type notation, int ref is similar to int list,
while in the function application, ref 3 is similar to a constructor
application like Some 3 for example ?
Or are you saying that even this kind of notations come from the
original LCF ML ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-23 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-12 19:02 Tim Freeman
2002-08-12 19:57 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-08-23 9:24 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-08-23 12:38 ` Sven LUTHER [this message]
2002-08-23 13:58 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-08-13 0:49 Arturo Borquez
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