Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] Standard syntax extensions ?

["Till Crueger" <crueger@informatik.uni-bonn.de>]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:41:57 +0200, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:

> I'm guessing that there will be ambiguity because you're wanting to
> add yet another meaning to the reserved word 'in'.
>
> However I'm not sure why you don't just use 'List.mem', or even:
>
>   let mem = List.mem ;;
>
>   mem 1 [1;2;3]

Since I am reading the "Haskell School of expressions" right now (to  
become better at functional Programming, not to leave my favourite  
language :)) I am starting to like the way you can turn any function into  
an infix operator by using quotes. Wouldn't it be possible to have  
something similar to this in OCaml? I don't think there is an easy way to  
do this yet, since I didn't find anything on this topic.

I am posting this in this thread, because this would allow us to write the  
above more elegantly as:
1 `mem` [1;2;3], which is close to what was originally proposed.

What do you think of this?

bye,
   Till


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