From: Falk Hueffner <hueffner@Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De>
To: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
Cc: Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Stupid question about the toplevel
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 22:50:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vfki9k9t.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404021543480.25700-100000@localhost.localdomain> (Brian Hurt's message of "Fri, 2 Apr 2004 15:47:17 -0600 (CST)")
Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org> writes:
> An example toplevel experience:
> $ ocaml
> Objective Caml version 3.07
>
> # 3+4;;
> - : int = 7
> #
>
> So what's the "-" at the begining of the line mean? Originally I thought
> it meant that the input came from stdin, but I've been unable to change it
> to anything else. Is it just "this line comes from the toplevel and not
> your code"?
No, it's the identifier the value was bound to:
# let x = 17;;
val x : int = 17
--
Falk
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-02 21:47 Brian Hurt
2004-04-02 20:50 ` Falk Hueffner [this message]
2004-04-02 22:02 ` Brian Hurt
2004-04-02 20:50 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-04-02 20:54 ` Pierre Weis
2004-04-02 21:09 ` Matt Gushee
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