From: brogoff@speakeasy.net
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] CamlP4 Revised syntax comment
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:02:47 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210251154160.9262-100000@grace.speakeasy.net> (raw)
Skip this thread if syntax discussions don't interest you.
I was wondering what Revised users think about replacing comparison = with
==, as in Haskell, and giving phys ref equality some other name?
Why? Well, = is overloaded in OCaml/Revised for both binding and
comparison, and this change removes that overloading and uses a
fairly common (C, Haskell, Clean,...) symbol == for equality. Physical
reference equality should be used rather sparingly anyways so it is better
perhaps that it not even be infix.
Besides the extra keystroke, I couldn't think of good reasons why not.
Backwards compatibility is not much argument against changes in Revised
syntax.
Another possible change along the same lines is having =/= or /= for
inequality, which happens to look a little more like the mathematical
symbol.
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-25 19:02 brogoff [this message]
2002-10-25 19:25 ` Oleg
2002-10-26 9:27 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2002-10-26 11:19 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-10-26 17:38 ` David Brown
2002-10-26 19:27 ` brogoff
2002-10-28 8:38 ` Kontra, Gergely
2002-10-28 9:28 ` Oleg
2002-10-28 9:41 ` Florian Douetteau
2002-10-28 10:04 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2002-10-28 12:20 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-10-28 16:53 ` brogoff
2002-10-28 16:56 ` Alexander V.Voinov
2002-10-29 18:15 ` Gérard Huet
2002-10-29 18:47 ` Alexander V.Voinov
2002-10-29 20:53 ` Damien Doligez
2002-10-29 21:30 ` M E Leypold @ labnet
2002-10-29 21:42 ` brogoff
2002-10-29 11:30 ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-29 16:48 ` brogoff
2002-10-29 17:20 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-30 17:49 Arturo Borquez
2002-10-31 9:21 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
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