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 MAA24303; Wed, 21 May 2003 12:05:53 +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 MAA24308 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 12:05:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from eposta.kablonet.com.tr ([62.248.102.66]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id h4LA5lT28665 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 12:05:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 46518 invoked by uid 0); 21 May 2003 10:07:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 195.174.169.185) (exa@kablonet.com.tr@195.174.169.185) by 0 with SMTP; 21 May 2003 10:07:30 -0000 From: Eray Ozkural Reply-To: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr Organization: Bilkent University CS Dept. To: Markus Mottl , Siegfried Gonzi Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Reading a file Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 13:04:28 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 Cc: caml-list@inria.fr References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030517225010.04b748a0@localhost> <3ECB2261.2030404@stud.uni-graz.at> <20030521091608.GB9455@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <20030521091608.GB9455@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200305211304.28298.exa@kablonet.com.tr> X-Spam: no; 0.00; eray:01 ozkural:01 caml-list:01 annotations:01 abstraction:01 haskell:01 erayo:01 bilkent:01 ankara:01 kde:01 malfunction:01 ariza:01 sci:01 syntax:02 mottl:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wednesday 21 May 2003 12:16, Markus Mottl wrote: > It's really just a matter of practice: I never use type annotations, > because my functions usually have parameter names that speak for > themselves. Only library functions get an explicit interface, both for > abstraction and documentation - in a separate file. Err. Yes, but anybody who's used Haskell will know that those annotations can be handy when you're writing the code. They are harmless too, why don't we have such a syntax? Thanks, -- Eray Ozkural (exa) Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara KDE Project: http://www.kde.org www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo Malfunction: http://mp3.com/ariza GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C ------------------- 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