From: William Lovas <wlovas@stwing.upenn.edu>
To: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Confused
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:42:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915184240.GB19620@force.stwing.upenn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095259945.27775.1034.camel@pelican.wigram>
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 12:52:26AM +1000, skaller wrote:
> Basically this syntax is a 'hack' used by language
> designers, overloading related syntactic forms to avoid
> introducing new keywords and to make the language
> 'more intuitive' - which usually backfires on newbies
> and even experts at times.
I suspect it was inherited from the original ML -- O'Caml could easily fix
this "problem" without introducing any new keywords, but i think the costs
outweigh the potential benefits.
cheers,
William
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-14 17:47 [Caml-list] strange behaviour of ocamldoc Eugene Ossintsev
2004-09-15 13:28 ` [Caml-list] Confused Jon Harrop
2004-09-15 13:46 ` Michael
2004-09-15 13:51 ` Radu Grigore
2004-09-15 14:01 ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-15 14:13 ` Jon Harrop
[not found] ` <7f8e92aa04091507233d074f31@mail.gmail.com>
2004-09-15 14:23 ` Radu Grigore
2004-09-15 14:50 ` Virgile Prevosto
2004-09-15 14:57 ` Radu Grigore
2004-09-15 14:52 ` skaller
2004-09-15 18:42 ` William Lovas [this message]
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