From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id EAA04005; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 04:59:45 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 EAA04000 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 04:59:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ajax.cs.uga.edu (ajax.cs.uga.edu [128.192.251.3]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h3A2xhX01633 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 04:59:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cs.uga.edu (ajax.cs.uga.edu [128.192.251.3]) by ajax.cs.uga.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA23687 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 22:59:40 -0400 (EDT) To: Ocaml Mailing List From: cashin@cs.uga.edu Subject: Re: [Caml-list] single-line comment request Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 22:59:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Brian Hurt's message of "Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:09:52 -0500 (CDT)") Message-ID: <87smsrukf6.fsf@cs.uga.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 qlogic:01 gratuitous:01 ocaml-mode:01 indenting:01 writes:01 emacs:01 match:02 pgp:02 wrote:03 usefull:03 daniel:06 practice:06 brian:06 confused:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Brian Hurt writes: > On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Daniel Andor wrote: > >> On Tuesday 08 April 2003 8:04 pm, Brian Hurt wrote: >> > If we're going to be introducing gratuitous backwards incompatiblities, >> > can we please do it for something usefull? Like say replacing begin/end >> > with { and }. >> >> If I may be a beginner here: how does "begin ... end" differ from "( ... )"? >> In practice I've found them to be interchangable, but that could just be an >> accident. > > At the linguistic level, not at all. At the text editor level, it's > easier in vi to jump to match braces than matching begin/ends. And my ocaml-mode in emacs gets confused about indenting if I use begin ... end. -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/ ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners