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 AAA29006; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 00:06:18 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA28945 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 00:06:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from epexch01.qlogic.org ([63.170.40.3]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h38M6G905900 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 00:06:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from epmailtmp.qlogic.org ([10.20.33.254]) by epexch01.qlogic.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:06:28 -0500 Received: from [10.20.33.146] ([10.20.33.146]) by epmailtmp.qlogic.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:06:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:09:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Brian Hurt X-X-Sender: Reply-To: Brian Hurt To: Daniel Andor cc: Ocaml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] single-line comment request In-Reply-To: <200304082257.11046.da209@cam.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Apr 2003 22:06:28.0534 (UTC) FILETIME=[1AB38560:01C2FE1B] X-Spam: no; 0.00; qlogic:01 caml-list:01 gratuitous:01 match:02 wrote:03 usefull:03 daniel:06 practice:06 brian:06 beginner:08 matching:08 comment:08 i've:09 replacing:09 something:09 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Daniel Andor wrote: > On Tuesday 08 April 2003 8:04 pm, Brian Hurt wrote: > > If we're going to be introducing gratuitous backwards incompatiblities, > > can we please do it for something usefull? Like say replacing begin/end > > with { and }. > > If I may be a beginner here: how does "begin ... end" differ from "( ... )"? > In practice I've found them to be interchangable, but that could just be an > accident. At the linguistic level, not at all. At the text editor level, it's easier in vi to jump to match braces than matching begin/ends. Brian ------------------- 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