Re: [Caml-list] Newbie: declarations

[Remi VANICAT <vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr>]

leary@nwlink.com writes:

> On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:08:28PM +0400, Vitaly Lugovsky wrote:
> >  It's an almost functional language, so please avoid variables. And use
> > references only when you really need 'em. Refer to the Guide about
> > references and named tuples.
> 
> Here's what I'm doing now (comments welcome; yes, I have short cryptic
> names).  I'm writing a robot for RealTimeBattle, and want to have access to
> information that isn't contained in every message the robot gets (and I'm
> not using threads or signals yet, fwiw).  This information is updated all
> the time.  (I'll post a link to the whole thing for criticism, once it
> actually does something interesting. :)

[...]


> let data : datarec = {

the type annotation is not mandatory :
let data =
is enough

[...]


> 
> let initialize i = match i with
> 	1 -> name "Bob"; color "00FF00 FF0000";
> 		debug "initialize 1\n";
> 	| 0 -> 
> 		data.name <- "bob";

[...]

it may be better to have two function : one to initialize the robot,
the other to make the other stuff.

-- 
Rémi Vanicat
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