From: William Lovas <wlovas@stwing.upenn.edu>
To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] baffled by semicolon
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 00:45:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040829044535.GA21833@force.stwing.upenn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16685.28589.807412.69960@soggy.deldotd.com>
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:05:49PM -0700, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> [...]
> However your response woke up some neurons - why wouldn't it be :
>
> let w = (area#misc#realize ()); area#misc#window ;;
... and the easy way to remember the reason it parses this way is to recall
that O'Caml is a *function*al language, so *function* application binds
most tightly. :) So in ``area#misc#realize (); area#mist#window'', the
application of ``area#misc#realize'' -- and not the `;' -- gets the ().
It's the same as with things like ``f x + g 3'' (= ``(f x) + (g 3)'', not
``f (x + g) 3'', or any other weird thing like that).
Hope this helps.
cheers,
William
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-29 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-26 3:22 briand
2004-08-26 3:30 ` David Brown
2004-08-26 4:18 ` Alex Valdez
2004-08-26 5:05 ` briand
2004-08-29 4:45 ` William Lovas [this message]
2004-08-30 7:12 ` Baffeld by manual (Was: [Caml-list] baffled by semicolon) Florian Hars
2004-08-30 8:06 ` skaller
2004-08-30 8:23 ` Radu Grigore
2004-08-30 8:25 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2004-08-30 11:07 ` skaller
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