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 XAA28813; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 23:59:58 +0200 (MET DST) 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 XAA28807 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 23:59:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from red.csi.cam.ac.uk (red.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.70]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h38Lxu905754 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 23:59:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from zone-7.jesus.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.243.37] helo=da209.jc) by red.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19318G-00023M-00 for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 22:59:56 +0100 From: Daniel Andor Reply-To: Daniel Andor To: Ocaml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] single-line comment request Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:57:11 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304082257.11046.da209@cam.ac.uk> X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 gratuitous:01 wrote:03 usefull:03 daniel:06 practice:06 brian:06 beginner:08 comment:08 i've:09 replacing:09 something:09 request:89 hurt:13 backwards:14 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tuesday 08 April 2003 8:04 pm, Brian Hurt wrote: > If we're going to be introducing gratuitous backwards incompatiblities, > can we please do it for something usefull? Like say replacing begin/end > with { and }. If I may be a beginner here: how does "begin ... end" differ from "( ... )"? In practice I've found them to be interchangable, but that could just be an accident. Daniel. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners