From: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@janestreet.com>
To: "caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: [Caml-list] Should -strict-sequence become the default?
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 10:20:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACLX4jSwg6j1FZWzz9VDpvNOEfOHp_nmdr3tHwy6QB7pyktPsw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Back in 3.12.1, a flag, -strict-sequence, was added that require that
the left-hand side of a sequence returns unit. I suspect there's
broad agreement that -strict-sequence is the better default, but that
the old behavior has been left in place by default for compatibility
reasons. I wonder if in the next major release, it would make sense
to make -strict-sequence the default, and have a flag for enabling the
old behavior.
To say the obvious, such a change would be of no value to experienced
people and organizations that know how to set up the compiler to their
liking, but can be of real value to newcomers to the language.
y
next reply other threads:[~2013-10-27 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-27 14:20 Yaron Minsky [this message]
2013-10-27 14:43 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2013-10-27 18:27 ` John Whitington
2013-10-27 18:47 ` Yaron Minsky
2013-10-28 12:42 ` ygrek
2013-10-28 13:00 ` Yaron Minsky
2013-10-28 13:08 ` Jacques Garrigue
2013-10-28 13:18 ` Mark Shinwell
2013-10-28 14:13 ` Malcolm Matalka
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