From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA12643; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:40:49 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA12495 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:40:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mlabdial.hit.bme.hu (mlabdial.hit.bme.hu [152.66.248.201]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g947em525447 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:40:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (kgergely@localhost) by mlabdial.hit.bme.hu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g947elL06007 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:40:47 +0200 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:40:47 +0200 (CEST) From: "Kontra, Gergely" To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] syntaxes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi! I've seen so far, that there are at least 2 version of syntax exists. My only question is: why has ocaml different syntax than standard ML at the places, where ocaml is not more efficient. Eg. it is the same as writing => and ->. Sometimes SML solution is shorter. Records in ocaml is not optimal. From a record creation, the type should be obvious, so labels can be reused in different type of records. And there is the let ... in ... end (Ada like) construct, which can be used to avoid ambiguity, (My opinion, that it should be used in try ... with ... end and match ... end constructs, but forget it, uniform syntax may be a more important point...) not talking about pattern matching in function heads... Gergo +-[Kontra, Gergely @ Budapest University of Technology and Economics]-+ | Email: kgergely@mcl.hu, kgergely@turul.eet.bme.hu | | URL: turul.eet.bme.hu/~kgergely Mobile: (+36 20) 356 9656 | +-------"Olyan langesz vagyok, hogy poroltoval kellene jarnom!"-------+ . Magyar php mirror es magyar php dokumentacio: http://hu.php.net ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners