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From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: OCaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] emacs mode?
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:26:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5CB1414F-852E-4B33-95D3-FE80A9ACAEDF@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimLenarWQ71J+J6C+MC2amdWiiMkCyTsvE7rVUm@mail.gmail.com>


On 2011-01-27, at 21:27, Ashish Agarwal wrote:

> The double semicolon is mostly used in the top-level. Although there is sometimes good use of them in source files, it is bad style to include them unnecessarily.

Style is subjective, but note that the double semicolons make it much
easier for random tools (including the compiler) to find out where your
phrases begin and end.

It also makes it easier to copy your code and paste it to the toplevel.

-- Damien



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-28 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-26 23:47 Raoul Duke
2011-01-27 13:38 ` Daniel Bünzli
2011-01-27 15:08 ` Ashish Agarwal
2011-01-27 18:46   ` Raoul Duke
2011-01-27 20:27     ` Ashish Agarwal
2011-01-27 20:29       ` Raoul Duke
2011-01-28 14:26       ` Damien Doligez [this message]
2011-01-27 20:09   ` Lukasz Stafiniak

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