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From: Jon Harrop <jon@jdh30.plus.com>
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Subject: [Caml-list] Confused
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:28:53 +0100
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How come this works:

# let rec build = function 0 -> [] | n -> 1e-6 :: build (n-1);;
val build : int -> float list = <fun>
# let test = 1. :: build 1000;;
val test : float list = ...

But this does not:

# let rec build = function 0 -> [] | n -> 1e-6 :: build (n-1) in
  let test = 1. :: build 1000;;
Syntax error

Am I being stupid?

Cheers,
Jon.

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