From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85D61BB9A for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:34:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j9TEY97G007550 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:34:09 +0200 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA07657 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:34:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j9TEY7aB007689 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:34:08 +0200 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EVrl2-0002td-9v for caml-list@inria.fr; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:32:32 +0200 Received: from 12.29.239.2 ([12.29.239.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:32:32 +0200 Received: from monnier by 12.29.239.2 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:32:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Stefan Monnier Subject: Re: Objective Caml 3.09 released Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:31:35 -0400 Message-ID: <878xwc5rb8.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> References: <4360E32F.1060905@inria.fr> <4361A431.9010508@cs.caltech.edu> <3ADF9856-A290-4EE1-B228-1AC406A85979@inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.29.239.2 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ISCZL8vcHVYIY2DRtsYyS0JF2qs= Sender: news X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 43638861.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4363885F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; umontreal:01 foo:01 foo:01 patterns:02 caml:02 match:02 objective:02 programming:03 pattern:03 complex:04 variable:05 style:93 arguments:07 unused:07 bit:10 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_BY_IP,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 > The rules for Y are a bit complex. They are designed to match our style > of programming, where we sometimes document patterns by giving names to > all the arguments, even if they are unused. I like the use of "_foo", since it not only documents the pattern by giving it a name (like "foo" does), it also documents the fact that this variable is not used (like "_" does). Stefan