On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 12:42 AM, oliver <oliver@first.in-berlin.de> wrote:

>
> The OCaml Language Specification is most certainly not a document intended
> for a beginner either to OCaml or functional programming - an obsessive
> elimination of the word variable would likely make the text less clear to those
> who will actually be reading it.

OK, I see.

FWIW, I avoid calling them variables when teaching people who are not math-savvy but already are C/Pascal/Python programmers (unfortunate condition!) Using "familiar" terms can be an obstacle in that case.