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From: "Petter A. Urkedal" <paurkedal@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Terser ppx syntax for common usage (like monads)

2015-10-10 15:48 GMT+02:00 Petter A. Urkedal <paurkedal@gmail.com>:
> My reason for choosing "*" is 1) it looks okay in my opinion, 2) it is
> only used as a binary operator, so it can't interfere with existing
> code, like e.g. "let!" could.

I realized that "let!" was a bad example, but "if! r then 1 else 0" is
valid if "r" is a reference, so using "!" for ppx extension points
could invalidate existing code.