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From: Julien Moutinho <julien.moutinho@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Which syntax to teach ?
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:54:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071024135408.GA14385@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710240924.43140.peng.zang@gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:24:39AM -0400, Peng Zang wrote:
> Part of what made OCaml 
> attractive for me was its compactness.  Take "[x::[y::[z::t]]]" for example, 
> it's quite nasty compared to just "x::y::z::t".
See http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-camlp4/manual007.html#toc20
there is an other syntax: [x; y; z :: t].

By the way, the revised syntax may ease moves through the code,
due to the presence of more brackets, from which one could jump
from one to another.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-24 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-24 11:36 David Teller
2007-10-24 13:18 ` [Caml-list] " Loup Vaillant
2007-10-24 13:24 ` Peng Zang
2007-10-24 13:54   ` Julien Moutinho [this message]
2007-10-24 17:23 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-10-24 19:05   ` Adrien
2007-10-25  5:14     ` Aleks Bromfield
2007-10-30 16:26     ` Chung-chieh Shan
2007-10-30 16:38       ` [Caml-list] " Brian Hurt
2007-10-30 16:59         ` Chung-chieh Shan
2007-10-30 17:08         ` [Caml-list] " Edgar Friendly
2007-10-30 17:56           ` skaller
2007-10-30 19:02             ` Vincent Aravantinos
2007-10-30 18:50           ` William D. Neumann
2007-10-30 21:45           ` Eliot Handelman
2007-10-30 18:56       ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-10-25  9:43   ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2007-10-24 22:52 ` Nathaniel Gray
2007-10-24 23:10   ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-25  1:48     ` skaller
2007-10-25  2:02       ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-25  9:49       ` Richard Jones
2007-10-25 11:32         ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2007-10-25 11:52           ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-10-25 12:39           ` Richard Jones
2007-10-25 12:59         ` Michael Ekstrand
2007-10-25 13:39           ` Loup Vaillant
2007-10-25 20:32             ` Andrej Bauer
2007-10-25 22:11               ` Loup Vaillant
2007-10-25 15:14           ` Richard Jones
2007-10-25 18:47             ` Re : " Adrien
2007-11-02 16:08       ` Nathaniel Gray
2007-10-26 11:11     ` David Teller
2007-10-24 23:02 ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-26 11:09   ` David Teller

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