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From: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why can't I use constructors as functions?
Date: 5 Aug 2001 12:57:06 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn.pl.9mqgl2.9td.qrczak@qrnik.zagroda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9kffrd$72l$1@qrnik.zagroda>

Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:00:17 +0200, Markus Mottl <markus@mail4.ai.univie.ac.at> pisze:

> The language would seem much more regular to me if functions and
> constructors were treated in a similar way.  Would this be too big a
> change to the core language?

It's a change to the syntax, not to the core language. Revised syntax
uses curried constructors, with declaration of a constructor looking
like this:
   ... | C of int and string | ...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-05 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-30 18:51 Krishnaswami, Neel
2001-08-03  8:16 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-08-03  9:19   ` Andreas Rossberg
2001-08-03 10:00   ` Markus Mottl
     [not found]   ` <9kffrd$72l$1@qrnik.zagroda>
2001-08-05 12:57     ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk [this message]
     [not found] <200108031627.JAA19052@dhpc0010.pdx.intel.com>
2001-08-06  8:14 ` Xavier Leroy

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