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From: Issac Trotts <ijtrotts@ucdavis.edu>
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Christophe TROESTLER wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Issac Trotts <ijtrotts@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>  
>
>>I've seen both, but I now avoid the "let _ = " expression because if
>>you leave it out then ocamlc gives a warning when you don't supply
>>all the arguments to a function.  The warning is good to have.
>>    
>>
>
>Use
>	let () = ...
>
I only know of one place where that would be needed:

 class foo () =
    let () = frobnicate() in
    object
        ...  
    end

since

 class foo () =
    frobnicate();
    object
        ...  
    end

doesn't work.  Otherwise, what's the point?

Issac

   

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