From: Don Syme <dsyme@microsoft.com>
To: "'caml-list@inria.fr'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Syntax for label
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:53:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39ADCF833E74D111A2D700805F1951EF180144F2@RED-MSG-06> (raw)
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And why not "as", i.e. "t as x", as I explained once in a previous post.
I never did get an explanation as to why this wasn't an better solution. It
reuses a rarely-used keyword in a perfectly backward-compatible way.
I think it's simply a typical case of a new (and not necessarily terribly
crucial) language feature muscling in on the limited "ultra-convenient"
concrete syntax that's available! No offence intended ;-)
Cheers,
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: Christophe Raffalli [mailto:Christophe.Raffalli@univ-savoie.fr]
Sent: 10 March 2000 18:45
To: caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Syntax for label
It is clear that labels are a good thing ...
But why did you use the same character ":" for types and labels !
whit not (for instance) x:t to say that x as type t
and l#x to say that x as label l
the syntax l#x:t is much better than l:x : t !!
I know that # is allready used for methods ... but some characters are
still usable:
~
£ it looks like the l of labels (but its ascii code is greater than 128,
but is this really a problem ? probably ?)
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-14 16:53 Don Syme [this message]
2000-03-14 18:05 ` Pierre Weis
2000-03-15 3:15 ` Syntax for label, NEW PROPOSAL Jacques Garrigue
2000-03-15 6:58 ` Christophe Raffalli
2000-03-15 21:54 ` Julian Assange
2000-03-15 11:56 ` Wolfram Kahl
2000-03-15 13:58 ` Pierre Weis
2000-03-15 15:26 ` Sven LUTHER
2000-03-17 7:44 ` Pierre Weis
2000-03-15 17:04 ` John Prevost
2000-03-17 10:11 ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-03-15 17:06 ` Markus Mottl
2000-03-15 19:11 ` Remi VANICAT
2000-03-17 8:30 ` Pierre Weis
2000-03-17 14:05 ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-03-17 16:08 ` Pierre Weis
2000-03-18 10:32 ` Syntax for label, NEW SOLUTION Christophe Raffalli
2000-03-19 2:29 ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-03-20 18:25 ` Christophe Raffalli
2000-03-22 8:37 ` Claudio Sacerdoti Coen
2000-03-21 23:29 ` John Max Skaller
2000-03-29 8:42 ` Semantic of label: The best (only ?) solution to merge both mode Christophe Raffalli
2000-03-29 9:53 ` Christophe Raffalli
2000-03-30 9:49 ` John Max Skaller
2000-03-30 9:39 ` John Max Skaller
2000-03-31 4:34 ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-04-01 1:53 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-02 19:24 ` Christophe Raffalli
2000-04-04 5:50 ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-04-03 7:57 ` backward compatibility Christophe Raffalli
2000-03-15 21:30 ` Syntax for label, NEW PROPOSAL John Max Skaller
2000-03-16 2:55 ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-03-17 15:13 ` Pierre Weis
2000-03-17 17:33 ` Wolfram Kahl
2000-03-18 11:59 ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-03-21 16:51 ` Pascal Brisset
2000-03-23 11:14 ` Nicolas barnier
2000-03-24 9:54 ` labels & ocaml 3 & co David Mentré
2000-03-24 12:19 ` David Mentré
2000-03-21 22:22 ` Unsigned integers? John Max Skaller
2000-03-22 16:22 ` Sven LUTHER
2000-03-23 2:08 ` Max Skaller
2000-03-23 7:50 ` Sven LUTHER
2000-03-24 2:50 ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-03-24 15:59 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-03-25 4:03 ` John Max Skaller
2000-03-24 14:50 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-03-22 17:05 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2000-03-22 19:10 ` Markus Mottl
2000-03-23 2:41 ` Max Skaller
2000-03-22 19:47 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-03-23 12:55 ` John Max Skaller
2000-03-16 8:50 ` Syntax for label, NEW PROPOSAL Pascal Brisset
2000-03-17 11:15 ` Sven LUTHER
2000-03-18 0:04 ` Syntax for label, ANOTHER " Steven Thomson
2000-03-15 20:39 ` Syntax for label (and more) Xavier Leroy
2000-03-17 10:03 ` Christian RINDERKNECHT
2000-03-17 17:19 ` Christophe Raffalli
2000-03-21 1:29 ` Markus Mottl
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2000-03-14 18:28 Syntax for label Don Syme
2000-03-10 8:22 Christophe Raffalli
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