Relatedly, one should be careful using the [ignore] function. Always give
its argument a type signature. E.g. if you do this:

  ignore (my_function foo);

Then this will start silently not calling [my_function] whenever someone
adds a second argument. You should instead use:

  ignore (my_function foo : Foo.t);


On 21 May 2014 13:25, Ollie Frolovs <ollie.frolovs.2012@my.bristol.ac.uk>wrote:

> oh dear! i think i know what happened. self_init has never been called in
> the first place! it requires a unit argument which i did not give it, so
> the “alias” to Random.self_init was assigned to nothing, so to speak,
> instead of calling the function.
>
> Many thanks, Dmitry! I’ve amended that line to let () = Random.self_init
> () and it works.
>
> On 21 May 2014, at 13:18, Dmitry Grebeniuk <gdsfh1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> >> let _ = Random.self_init
> >
> >  That's why I almost never use "let _ = ...", or
> > constrain "_" to some type when I use it.
> >  Try to replace it with "let () = ..." and follow compiler
> > errors.  Or with "let (_ : unit) = ...".
>
>
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