From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1EABBC1 for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 23:20:25 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhsCAGfQGUjAXQIniGdsb2JhbACRXgEBAQ8gmlw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,423,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="12170153" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 01 May 2008 23:20:25 +0200 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m41LKJXR026330 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 23:20:25 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhsCAFjRGUhQRFuwiGdsb2JhbACRXgEBAQ8gmn8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,423,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="25742886" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 01 May 2008 23:20:24 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JrgCV-0000A1-Ul for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 01 May 2008 22:20:23 +0100 Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 22:20:23 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Should a /\ operator be possible? Message-ID: <20080501212023.GA373@annexia.org> References: <20080501194149.GA30095@annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080501194149.GA30095@annexia.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 481A3413.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; 0100,:01 bug:01 camlp:01 ocaml:01 lexical:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 conventions:02 define:02 let:03 let:03 thu:05 converting:05 manual:06 discussion:06 On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:41:49PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > let ( /\ ) (a1, a2) (b1, b2) = a2 > b1 || b2 > a1 I've just reread the Lexical conventions section in the manual. For some reason when I read it first I thought it said that '\' was allowed, but in fact it's not so this appears to be a bug in camlp4. BUT can we permit this? It's nice to be able to define /\ and \/ operators with the obvious meanings :-) In fact can we open the discussion about converting OCaml source files into UTF-8 and allow _lots_ more symbols? eg: let (∪) = ... let (⊆) = ... Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat