From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
To: ivan chollet <ivan.chollet@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukasz Stafiniak <lukstafi@gmail.com>,
Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons <dofp.ocaml@gmail.com>,
caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Examples where let rec is undesirable
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 21:36:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120105213636.GA30972@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACm_MF8JrUsoGFG1Bq3CHEkHBFRPWg=NzrgrwBSkThpTO59LZA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:27:25PM +0000, ivan chollet wrote:
> Allowing variable shadowing is aesthetically more satisfying and more
> expressive, but opens the door to bugs that can be harder to track by
> static analysis.
You'll have to explain a bit more why this is.
Also, why is variable shadowing bad within a function (in C), but just
fine across different functions? Surely if it's bad at all, every
local variable in the whole program should have a unique name?
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-05 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-02 22:37 Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2012-01-02 22:49 ` Alexandre Pilkiewicz
2012-01-03 0:05 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2012-01-03 5:47 ` Martin Jambon
2012-01-03 8:07 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-01-05 20:04 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-01-05 20:27 ` ivan chollet
2012-01-05 20:46 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-01-05 21:39 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-01-06 2:39 ` Cedric Cellier
2012-01-06 15:22 ` Damien Doligez
2012-01-05 21:36 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2012-01-05 23:16 ` ivan chollet
2012-01-06 8:34 ` David Allsopp
2012-01-06 10:34 ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-01-03 13:05 ` Yaron Minsky
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