From: Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de>
To: Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ANNOUNCE: mod_caml 1.0.6 - includes security patch
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:43:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <400E49D2.30502@ps.uni-sb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040121003455.GA27898@davidb.org>
David Brown wrote:
>
> Does it?
>
> let f a =
> let a = a + 1 in
> a
> where a = a + 2
>
> What does this function do? You could argue for any result a, (a+1),
> (a+2), or (a+3). The casual definition of the where clause doesn't
> specify precedence. Obviously, an implementation would have to chose
> one, but there is no clear reason one choice is better than the other.
It is not obvious, since there is a another, strictly better choice: the
grammer could simply give let and where same precedence and disallow
mixing them without parentheses.
- Andreas
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-15 14:03 Richard Jones
[not found] ` <4006AC01.F2AD2741@decis.be>
2004-01-15 15:42 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-15 16:19 ` Markus Mottl
2004-01-15 16:53 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-16 6:15 ` james woodyatt
2004-01-16 9:34 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-16 19:05 ` Brian Hurt
2004-01-16 18:52 ` Yutaka OIWA
2004-01-16 19:20 ` Markus Mottl
2004-01-16 19:01 ` Markus Mottl
2004-01-19 10:13 ` Luc Maranget
2004-01-19 11:36 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-19 14:43 ` Luc Maranget
2004-01-19 16:10 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-19 17:46 ` Markus Mottl
2004-01-19 18:05 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-19 21:45 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-01-20 11:31 ` Markus Mottl
2004-01-20 12:30 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-01-21 14:01 ` skaller
2004-01-20 17:34 ` Michal Moskal
2004-01-20 17:52 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-01-20 18:54 ` Michal Moskal
2004-01-20 19:21 ` Markus Mottl
2004-01-20 19:37 ` David Brown
2004-01-20 20:38 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-01-21 19:07 ` Max Kirillov
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.53.0401211150520.10508@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>
2004-01-22 2:15 ` Max Kirillov
2004-01-20 23:00 ` Brian Hurt
2004-01-20 23:48 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-01-21 0:34 ` David Brown
2004-01-21 2:32 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-01-21 2:34 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-01-21 2:34 ` Shawn Wagner
2004-01-21 9:43 ` Andreas Rossberg [this message]
2004-01-21 5:16 ` Brian Hurt
2004-01-19 21:59 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-01-19 18:18 ` David Brown
2004-01-19 19:15 ` Markus Mottl
2004-01-19 19:19 ` David Brown
[not found] ` <20040119185746.A12690@beaune.inria.fr>
2004-01-19 18:07 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-20 1:29 ` skaller
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