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From: Jon Harrop <jon@jdh30.plus.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Confused
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:13:13 +0100
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On Wednesday 15 September 2004 14:28, Jon Harrop wrote:
> # let rec build = function 0 -> [] | n -> 1e-6 :: build (n-1) in
>   let test = 1. :: build 1000;;
> Syntax error
>
> Am I being stupid?

Yes! The correct syntax is, of course:

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

So the "let" returned to the top-level has to be the outermost one. All inner 
"let"s must be followed by "in" and an expression.

Thanks, John and Christoph and anyone else who replies before I get this 
off. ;-)

Cheers,
Jon.

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