From: Vitaly Lugovsky <vsl@ontil.ihep.su>
To: Tim Freeman <tim@fungible.com>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why are type functions postfix?
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:57:15 +0400 (MSD) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0208122355500.6886-100000@ontil.ihep.su> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020812190521.587CF7F66@lobus.fungible.com>
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Tim Freeman wrote:
>
> In OCAML and other ML dialects I've used, you say:
>
> let x: int ref = ref 3
>
> Is there any reason that type functions like the first "ref" are
> postfix, unlike function application like the second "ref" that is
> prefix?
>
> If it's just history and there's no good reason, that's fine by me.
> I'm just curious.
It's not a function at all - it's just a constraint.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-12 19:02 Tim Freeman
2002-08-12 19:57 ` Vitaly Lugovsky [this message]
2002-08-23 9:24 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-08-23 12:38 ` Sven LUTHER
2002-08-23 13:58 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-08-13 0:49 Arturo Borquez
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