From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] a question about syntax
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:40:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180214234023.36qmqoukx47zk442@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA++P_gekkG3hdKFA=L6qyS+LQVR0vpM3+GMfxn_Q6xezWj6mdw@mail.gmail.com>
On 2018-02-14 15:02, Chet Murthy wrote:
> I remember back in the day Pierre Weis explaining to me that this
> syntactic trade-off was made in order to allow that "let" and "match"
> didn't have ending key-words (e.g. "end").
I would understand and accept that choice. But the larger question is,
why was the semicolon overloaded like this? In SML the semicolon serves
just one purpose: separating consecutive imperative statements (well it
can also separate declarations but that is optional). Why has CAML
chosen to use the semicolon in list and record patterns and values,
instead of the comma like SML?
> Unlike in SML/NJ.
SML has multiple implementations (as implied in the S).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-14 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-14 3:31 Tim Leonard
2018-02-14 3:41 ` Kenneth Adam Miller
2018-02-14 4:12 ` Yawar Amin
2018-02-14 4:32 ` Tim Leonard
2018-02-14 18:50 ` Oliver Bandel
2018-02-14 23:02 ` Chet Murthy
2018-02-14 23:40 ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2018-02-15 0:17 ` Evgeny Roubinchtein
2018-02-15 1:17 ` Chet Murthy
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