From: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Cc: proff@iq.org
Subject: let ... in layout
Date: 15 Mar 2000 12:33:58 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wx8zzlm2yh.fsf@suburbia.net> (raw)
let .. in
let .. in ...
seems such a common construct in caml that it could do with some
syntatic sugar. I often see let..in run to 5-20 clauses. This appears
incredibly ugly compared to the equivalent haskell code, is harder to
read and takes longer to write due to the clutter of the surrounding
token magic. Has anyone thought about applying layout in general to
ocaml, or otherwise sugaring let...in? Is there any reason why the BNF
let {name = expr}+ in
would be ambiguous?
The only other haskell features I frequently miss, are list
comprehensions and multiple argument pattern matching.
Cheers,
Julian.
next reply other threads:[~2000-03-15 7:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-15 1:33 Julian Assange [this message]
2000-03-15 8:22 ` Jean-Yves Moyen
2000-03-15 22:18 ` Julian Assange
2000-03-17 9:42 ` Pierre Weis
2000-03-15 8:56 ` Benoit Deboursetty
2000-03-17 13:16 ` Dmitri Lomov
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