On 2013 Oct 25, at 13:44 , Jacques Le Normand wrote: > I'm surprised noone has pointed out the new type annotation syntax: > > let id : type s. s -> s = fun x -> x > I like that syntax, I think. I suppose that "id : type s. s -> s = fun x -> x" is a let-binding and that "id : type s. s -> s" is a pattern, but I cannot get the syntax at http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/patterns.html to produce "id : type s. s -> s”.