From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A3B17EE51 for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 20:38:13 +0200 (CEST) Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of mmatalka@gmail.com) identity=pra; client-ip=209.85.212.173; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="mmatalka@gmail.com"; x-sender="mmatalka@gmail.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: Pass (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: domain of mmatalka@gmail.com designates 209.85.212.173 as permitted sender) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=209.85.212.173; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="mmatalka@gmail.com"; x-sender="mmatalka@gmail.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@mail-wi0-f173.google.com) identity=helo; client-ip=209.85.212.173; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="mmatalka@gmail.com"; x-sender="postmaster@mail-wi0-f173.google.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhoEAPxUolHRVdStk2dsb2JhbABagzivXIlniDgDAXwIFg4BAQEBBwsLCRQEJIIjAQEEAUABGxILAQMBCwYFBAEGGiEiAREBBQEKEgYTEgIGh2ABAwkGDKACjD+CfYNPChknAwpYiAwBBQyOOlMEB4NUA5c7gSmOMhYphDc6 X-IPAS-Result: AhoEAPxUolHRVdStk2dsb2JhbABagzivXIlniDgDAXwIFg4BAQEBBwsLCRQEJIIjAQEEAUABGxILAQMBCwYFBAEGGiEiAREBBQEKEgYTEgIGh2ABAwkGDKACjD+CfYNPChknAwpYiAwBBQyOOlMEB4NUA5c7gSmOMhYphDc6 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,746,1363129200"; d="scan'208";a="19030760" Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com ([209.85.212.173]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 26 May 2013 20:38:13 +0200 Received: by mail-wi0-f173.google.com with SMTP id hi5so1028405wib.6 for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 11:38:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=xK/jN4wmUWGgwKg94HjKeRzfH4WW1M+8ZE5qHDIyj4k=; b=mxqmTGpbQCRiQ5K1SNiT7q15ET9vFR8Yjl1Nzhd1KepdZaSYJ2d99zWrPbvq94cXHx DuLg3xEVhRbv7KIEp8P8KHFKJ673ALUgcWx2Iu5zxo82QIHuomkpYkyPhSHyynzooktD 1qgVctC+jo2QeKEYWYBJ7G1Y60TNKDlsXxrrtTP4V0d2JqAnmU7D9XHgPo946lwvJkzZ nObR4mPVNRNchP3Pjo6ONHM3yxbtPqqmigxDlLQu5bnvUC19pmBH+UDcWNUpOTPF3eYX pPs8MOWvPhsAxjcVc8rdzOgiJUgM5D7QO8CxeZSeazy394HNTDnlquvrel74ZPJ+tspu pDxg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.123.197 with SMTP id mc5mr6371460wjb.54.1369593492900; Sun, 26 May 2013 11:38:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.123.231 with HTTP; Sun, 26 May 2013 11:38:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.123.231 with HTTP; Sun, 26 May 2013 11:38:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130526150008.GA2014@siouxsie> References: <20130523235355.GI6510@siouxsie> <20130526150008.GA2014@siouxsie> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 20:38:12 +0200 Message-ID: From: Malcolm Matalka To: oliver Cc: caml-list Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e011831aea1932f04dda3552b Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml's variables --089e011831aea1932f04dda3552b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I think ocaml had bigger problems to solve than this if it wants a larger user base. On May 26, 2013 5:00 PM, "oliver" wrote: > Looks to me, that the paedagogical concepts > that were mentioned here, rather create confusion > than making things clear. > > Some students learn this banning of the term "variable" > (and can rely on "I've learned this in university"), > spread these news to the programmer community and when > this wording style comes back to the originators, it will > be judged as wrong. > > These teaching concepts look wrong to me. > > Ciao, > Oliver > > -- > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: > https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs > --089e011831aea1932f04dda3552b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I think ocaml had bigger problems to solve than this if it w= ants a larger user base.

On May 26, 2013 5:00 PM, "oliver" <= oliver@first.in-berlin.de&= gt; wrote:
Looks to me, that the paedagogical concepts
that were mentioned here, rather create confusion
than making things clear.

Some students learn this banning of the term "variable"
(and can rely on "I've learned this in university"),
spread these news to the programmer community and when
this wording style comes back to the originators, it will
be judged as wrong.

These teaching concepts look wrong to me.

Ciao,
=A0 =A0Oliver

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