From: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
To: Patrick M Doane <patrick@watson.org>
Cc: Pierre Weis <Pierre.Weis@inria.fr>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] variant with tuple arg in pattern match?
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 05:04:48 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AD35950.B9B6505B@ozemail.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010409224548.63534A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
Patrick M Doane wrote:
> I think it is good to have these syntax discussions from time to time.
> Obviously it should not be the main focus of attention, but syntax really
> matters for the first impressions a user has with a new programming
> language.
I don't agree with the first part: syntax is a vitally
important part of any language. It it the concrete representation
of the underlying semantic concepts. If you can't get a clean
and unified syntax .. there is probably a problem in the
underlying semantics.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-11 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-04 11:04 Chris Hecker
2001-04-04 18:47 ` Alain Frisch
2001-04-04 19:18 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-04-04 19:36 ` Chris Hecker
2001-04-04 19:49 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-04-05 8:19 ` Christian RINDERKNECHT
2001-04-04 19:49 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-04-06 13:52 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-04-07 1:42 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-04-07 6:44 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-04-07 7:42 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-04-08 19:45 ` Pierre Weis
2001-04-08 20:37 ` Charles Martin
2001-04-08 23:57 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-09 0:22 ` Alain Frisch
2001-04-09 16:07 ` Pierre Weis
2001-04-10 8:23 ` Michel Mauny
2001-04-10 9:14 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-04-10 10:09 ` Michel Mauny
2001-04-10 10:44 ` reig
2001-04-10 11:32 ` Michel Mauny
2001-04-10 11:47 ` reig
2001-04-10 12:10 ` reig
2001-04-10 12:35 ` Michel Mauny
2001-04-10 12:49 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2001-04-09 6:23 ` Mattias Waldau
2001-04-09 7:34 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-04-09 15:57 ` Pierre Weis
2001-04-10 9:07 ` Sven LUTHER
2001-04-09 8:20 ` Christian RINDERKNECHT
2001-04-10 2:54 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-04-10 19:04 ` John Max Skaller [this message]
2001-04-08 0:22 jgm
2001-04-10 12:17 Dave Berry
2001-04-10 13:12 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2001-04-10 21:26 ` Bruce Hoult
2001-04-10 22:34 ` John Prevost
2001-04-10 13:51 ` Frank Atanassow
2001-04-10 17:25 Dave Berry
2001-04-10 23:16 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2001-04-10 17:33 Dave Berry
2001-04-10 22:34 ` John Prevost
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