From: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@janestreet.com>
To: Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Custom let bindings
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:47:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACLX4jT4Mc4ZbgZC=eRpEwTkin4mNmpSvJZ62-SDbNix+4nmuw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F196092.7060707@dogguy.org>
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We use monads quite a bit, and the lack of a monadic syntax has been a
long-running issue for us at Jane Street. I'd love to see some kind of
monadic syntax land. I've seen the proposal, and it seems highly
plausible. Also, having a special operator (let!) has been proposed as
part of this I believe, and that seems like a good idea too.
y
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that Alain Frisch tried to add custom let bindings (see r11894
> and r11906) but it was reverted later on (see r11960) because no
> consensus was reached (among OCaml Core team, I guess). AFAIR, I don't
> remember seeing this on the caml-list. I'd personally vote for its
> inclusion as I can see some uses for it. As any syntaxic sugar, it is
> something we can live without but it could make things easier to read or
> to express.
>
> FTR, the proposal is to add the following:
>
> “let.e0 p = e1 in e2” will be expanded to “e0 e1 (fun p -> e2)”.
>
> I'm not sure which part of the proposal was not agreed on (the syntaxic
> details "let.e0" or the whole proposal). Any input from the core team would
> be appreciated.
>
> What do others think about it?
>
> Regards,
>
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> Mehdi Dogguy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-20 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-20 12:39 Mehdi Dogguy
2012-01-20 12:47 ` Yaron Minsky [this message]
2012-01-22 10:23 ` Xavier Leroy
2012-01-22 10:43 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2012-01-22 12:18 ` ivan chollet
2012-01-22 15:18 ` Jacques Carette
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