From: Pierre Weis <pierre.weis@inria.fr>
To: kgergely@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu (Kontra, Gergely)
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] syntaxes
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:22:03 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210040922.LAA16590@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210040935200.5771-100000@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu> from "Kontra, Gergely" at "Oct 4, 102 09:40:47 am"
Hi,
> I've seen so far, that there are at least 2 version of syntax exists.
> My only question is: why has ocaml different syntax than standard ML at
> the places, where ocaml is not more efficient.
> Eg. it is the same as writing => and ->.
> Sometimes SML solution is shorter.
> Records in ocaml is not optimal. From a record creation, the type should
> be obvious, so labels can be reused in different type of records. And
> there is the let ... in ... end (Ada like) construct, which can be used
> to avoid ambiguity, (My opinion, that it should be used in try ... with
> ... end and match ... end constructs, but forget it, uniform syntax may
> be a more important point...) not talking about pattern matching in
> function heads...
>
> Gergo
>
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Read the FAQ:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/FAQ/FAQ_EXPERT-eng.html#sml
The answer to the question
Why is the syntax of Caml different from SML's one ?
should be relevant to your concern.
Let me know if this is not clear enough for your taste.
Regards,
Pierre Weis
INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis/
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-04 7:40 Kontra, Gergely
2002-10-04 8:32 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-10-04 10:58 ` Kontra, Gergely
2002-10-04 11:04 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-10-07 7:06 ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-04 9:22 ` Pierre Weis [this message]
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