From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com>
To: Dave Berry <Dave@kal.com>
Cc: ocaml mailing list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Please help a newbie
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:08:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108020902070.11998-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8E31D6933A2FE64F8AE3CC1381EEDCE70B3194@NT.kal.com>
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Dave Berry wrote:
> For the language designers on the list: This is an example of why
> curried notation is a bad idea. If the function were written using
> tuples, Johann would have been less likely to make this mistake, and if
> he had, the compiler could have given a message that was easier to
> understand.
This could also be construed as an instance of "function" being a bad
idea, or at least, a little confusing to beginners. It's confusing because
it takes an implicit argument. If match had been used, I don't think
this would have happened. In the Revised syntax of CamlP4 function is
omitted (for other reasons I think). While I stumbled a bit at first with
function, I use it a bit now.
-- Brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-02 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-02 13:37 Dave Berry
2001-08-02 16:08 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
2001-08-02 13:42 Johann Spies
2001-08-02 12:54 ` Frank Atanassow
2001-08-02 13:01 ` Francois Thomasset
2001-08-02 13:25 ` Francois Thomasset
2001-08-02 13:05 ` Sven
2001-08-03 10:58 Johann Spies
2001-08-03 18:23 ` [Caml-list] Please help a newbie md5i
2001-08-05 21:37 ` John Max Skaller
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