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From: blue storm <bluestorm.dylc@gmail.com>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Constructors are not functions
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:49:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <527cf6bc0910100449s223e8c0co26683cb5b05f72f3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910061338.20954.jon@ffconsultancy.com>

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> Can you not just say that Bar in an expression is a function (fun x -> Bar x)?

Ocaml has a "recursive definition of values" extension that make
syntaxic distinctions between constructors and functions even in an
expression context :
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual021.html#toc70 .


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-10 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-06 12:01 Chantal KELLER
2009-10-06 12:19 ` [Caml-list] " Philippe Wang
2009-10-06 12:38   ` Jon Harrop
2009-10-06 13:38     ` Richard Jones
2009-10-10 11:49     ` blue storm [this message]
2009-10-06 12:45 ` David Allsopp
2009-10-06 12:46   ` David Allsopp
2009-10-06 13:14   ` Jim Farrand
2009-10-06 13:51     ` Michel Mauny
2009-10-06 13:15   ` Jon Harrop
2009-10-06 14:04     ` David Allsopp
2009-10-06 14:51       ` Jon Harrop
2009-10-06 15:24       ` Richard Jones
2009-10-06 16:31         ` Jacques Garrigue
2009-10-08 12:37       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-09  6:29         ` David Allsopp
2009-10-10  6:16           ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-06 13:18 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2009-10-06 15:50 ` Jérémie Dimino
2009-10-06 21:55   ` blue storm

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