Re: [Caml-list] use of ";;" when teaching Ocaml

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

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Am Montag, den 22.06.2015, 17:47 +0100 schrieb Mark Shinwell:
> On 22 June 2015 at 17:30, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> wrote:
> > Also, I actually don't see why not using ";;" is considered cleaner.
> > It's a bit like writing sentences without full stop
> 
> There is a "full stop", though: it's a blank line.
> In my book, the code of functions shouldn't contain blank lines (I've
> found this to often be a good sign that the function is too long
> and/or complicated).

This is irrelevant when the compiler doesn't understand blank lines.

Btw, there are various conventions in use. Personally, I prefer a clear
optical separation of functions, and typically use 2-3 blank lines,
allowing me the freedom of putting single blank lines here and there
into the function body for purely aesthetic reasons. But, as mentioned,
this is off topic, as our common friend, the OCaml compiler, cannot make
anything out of it.


Gerd
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