From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE504BC32 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:41:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j2GNftH8022582 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:41:55 +0100 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA02440 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:41:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from first.in-berlin.de (dialin-145-254-051-218.arcor-ip.net [145.254.51.218]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j2GNfohq024919 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:41:53 +0100 Received: by first.in-berlin.de (Postfix, from userid 501) id E5C05BC259; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:41:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:41:42 +0100 From: Oliver Bandel To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml troll on Slashdot Message-ID: <20050316234142.GA439@first.in-berlin.de> References: <200503152036.45894.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <32977.131.254.50.45.1110920621.squirrel@mail.irisa.fr> <172f01077499b3d417604d0ad31f2bdb@cs.unm.edu> <20050316001819.GB347@first.in-berlin.de> <20050316025532.GA593@first.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4238C443.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4238C43E.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; oliver:01 bandel:01 oliver:01 in-berlin:01 caml-list:01 ocaml:01 bandel:01 syntax:01 quirks:01 toplevel:01 infers:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 quite:06 programmer:06 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:23:02PM +0100, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Oliver Bandel wrote: > > > > Second, many people I know still put ";;" cos they were taught that way > > > > Hey, that was the way I started too! :) > > I should say, I do it *on purpose*, even knowing that it is not necessary. > > Why? Putting ";;" or not does not make a difference for the programmer, > but not using certain "syntax quirks" makes it easier to operate on the > source code with tools, quite in general. Oh, good idea. But it makes a difference, when using the toplevel, because it immediately answers the type it infers, which is a nice feature. Ciao, Oliver