From: "Jonathan Roewen" <jonathan.roewen@gmail.com>
To: "Edgar Friendly" <thelema314@gmail.com>
Cc: "Christophe TROESTLER" <Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be>,
caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:06:13 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad8cfe7e0701161206i5d3636a2s90633f0320e8dd8f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45AD10BF.60606@gmail.com>
> C is interesting because the braces are optional, and people get into
> trouble often when they fail to use them. And many people's solution is
> to treat the braces as non-optional. I don't think this is as
> appropriate in ocaml because parens serve a second use: constructing
> tuples. Since if/then returns a value, the difference of ; vs. ,
> results in a huge difference in what's going on.
>
> As for changing the C language, 1: it's already written in stone 2: it's
> not worth saving, ocaml is.
OCaml is mostly fine syntactically, and 'if' isn't a problem. If you
don't like using parentheses, use begin/end. Personally, I prefer
begin/end anyway.
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-16 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-13 5:37 Edgar Friendly
2007-01-13 5:56 ` [Caml-list] " Tom
2007-01-14 17:35 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-14 17:59 ` ketty
2007-01-14 18:21 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-14 18:29 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-13 7:41 ` David Baelde
2007-01-13 9:31 ` ketty
2007-01-14 17:33 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-14 18:23 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-14 18:41 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-14 20:49 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-14 23:38 ` Gabriel Kerneis
2007-01-15 0:55 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-15 6:12 ` skaller
2007-01-15 0:05 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-15 5:59 ` skaller
2007-01-15 20:23 ` Martin Jambon
2007-01-15 21:30 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-15 22:13 ` Try finally (was Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features) Daniel Bünzli
2007-01-15 22:27 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-15 22:40 ` Quôc Peyrot
2007-01-15 23:08 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-15 22:17 ` [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-16 1:18 ` skaller
2007-01-16 2:11 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-16 5:18 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-16 6:36 ` skaller
2007-01-16 6:33 ` skaller
2007-01-16 13:55 ` Brian Hurt
2007-01-16 9:00 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-16 14:14 ` skaller
2007-01-16 15:00 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-16 17:47 ` skaller
2007-01-16 19:24 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-17 3:28 ` skaller
2007-01-17 11:41 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-17 12:53 ` Olivier Andrieu
2007-01-17 13:18 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-17 14:09 ` skaller
2007-01-16 19:42 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-16 21:15 ` Florian Weimer
2007-01-17 3:46 ` skaller
2007-01-17 11:50 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-15 5:56 ` skaller
2007-01-15 9:35 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-01-15 18:28 ` Martin Jambon
2007-01-15 19:02 ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-01-14 19:01 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-14 18:51 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-14 20:49 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-15 0:19 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-20 19:19 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-20 21:40 ` skaller
2007-01-14 21:47 ` Tom
2007-01-15 10:36 ` Richard Jones
2007-01-15 14:24 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-16 8:45 ` Hendrik Tews
2007-01-16 9:08 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-21 17:07 ` [Caml-list] native-code stack backtraces (was: Ocaml compiler features) Xavier Leroy
2007-01-21 18:53 ` Pierre Etchemaïté
2007-01-16 5:21 ` [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features Edgar Friendly
2007-01-16 5:33 ` ketty
2007-01-16 6:00 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-16 6:10 ` ketty
2007-01-16 5:55 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-01-16 17:51 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-16 19:09 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-16 19:21 ` Brian Hurt
2007-01-16 20:06 ` Jonathan Roewen [this message]
2007-01-16 20:13 ` Florian Weimer
2007-01-16 6:51 ` skaller
2007-01-16 18:01 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-17 2:23 ` skaller
2007-01-16 8:00 ` Florian Hars
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