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From: Robert C Fischer <robert@fischerventure.com>
To: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] let int = ?([' ' '\t'] '-') digits+
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:35:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <468534CB.1090202@fischerventure.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183132646.25733.106.camel@nyc-qws-001.delacy.com>

This got filtered out, I think, so I'm trying again:

How would one express "one less than the value returned by function f" 
if f -1 was treated as f(-1)?

~~ Robert.

pzimmer@janestcapital.com wrote:
> Do you really want
>
> x-3*7
>
> to be interpreted as
>
> (x (-3)) * 7
>
> ?
>
>
> On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 16:39 +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
>   
>> If OCaml's lexer handled numbers of this format, would it be possible to 
>> write:
>>
>>   f -1 -2
>>
>> to mean:
>>
>>   f (-1) (-2)
>>
>> rather than:
>>
>>   f - 1 - 2
>>
>> Is this a good idea?
>>
>>     
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-29 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-29 15:39 Jon Harrop
2007-06-29 15:56 ` [Caml-list] " Robert C Fischer
2007-06-29 16:32   ` Brian Hurt
2007-06-29 16:40   ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-29 18:21     ` Philippe Wang
2007-06-29 15:57 ` pzimmer
2007-06-29 16:35   ` Robert C Fischer [this message]
2007-06-29 16:41   ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-29 17:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-29 18:11   ` [Caml-list] " Robert C Fischer
2007-06-29 21:05     ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-29 18:29 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-06-29 18:53   ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2007-06-29 19:21     ` Daniel Bünzli

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