From: Patrick M Doane <patrick@watson.org>
To: Pierre Weis <Pierre.Weis@inria.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] variant with tuple arg in pattern match?
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 22:54:03 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010409224548.63534A-100000@fledge.watson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200104081945.VAA09757@pauillac.inria.fr>
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Pierre Weis wrote:
> I would suggest the other way round: as we already did for functions,
> we should prefer the curried syntax for constructors.
>
> I suggest to explicitely annotate the constructor definitions as in:
>
> type t =
> | C : int -> int -> t
I really like this! You mentioned in later e-mails that this would leave
pattern matching unaffected. I assume it should also be possible to
consider the constructor as a higher-order function usable in any
location that a variable is currently allowed.
I think it is good to have these syntax discussions from time to time.
Obviously it should not be the main focus of attention, but syntax really
matters for the first impressions a user has with a new programming
language.
Patrick
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-04 11:04 Chris Hecker
2001-04-04 18:47 ` Alain Frisch
2001-04-04 19:18 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-04-04 19:36 ` Chris Hecker
2001-04-04 19:49 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-04-05 8:19 ` Christian RINDERKNECHT
2001-04-04 19:49 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-04-06 13:52 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-04-07 1:42 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-04-07 6:44 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-04-07 7:42 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-04-08 19:45 ` Pierre Weis
2001-04-08 20:37 ` Charles Martin
2001-04-08 23:57 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-09 0:22 ` Alain Frisch
2001-04-09 16:07 ` Pierre Weis
2001-04-10 8:23 ` Michel Mauny
2001-04-10 9:14 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-04-10 10:09 ` Michel Mauny
2001-04-10 10:44 ` reig
2001-04-10 11:32 ` Michel Mauny
2001-04-10 11:47 ` reig
2001-04-10 12:10 ` reig
2001-04-10 12:35 ` Michel Mauny
2001-04-10 12:49 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2001-04-09 6:23 ` Mattias Waldau
2001-04-09 7:34 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-04-09 15:57 ` Pierre Weis
2001-04-10 9:07 ` Sven LUTHER
2001-04-09 8:20 ` Christian RINDERKNECHT
2001-04-10 2:54 ` Patrick M Doane [this message]
2001-04-10 19:04 ` John Max Skaller
2001-04-08 0:22 jgm
2001-04-10 12:17 Dave Berry
2001-04-10 13:12 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2001-04-10 21:26 ` Bruce Hoult
2001-04-10 22:34 ` John Prevost
2001-04-10 13:51 ` Frank Atanassow
2001-04-10 17:25 Dave Berry
2001-04-10 23:16 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2001-04-10 17:33 Dave Berry
2001-04-10 22:34 ` John Prevost
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