Re: Warnings in ocaml

[akay@sharp.co.uk (Andrew Kay)]

> eg      let _ = List.map f
>         in print_endline "done map..."
>  
> Are there any plans to provide a warning for this in ocaml?  
 
To save anyone else the bother, I'll point out the error of
my ways myself.  

I think SML has (had?) a check which stopped you accidentally
ignoring a function value before a semi-colon.  However, since
functions are first class citizens, why shouldn't you want to ignore
them just as you might ignore a list or integer value?

So instead, I propose you write an explicit ignore function for each
type you want to ignore:

val ignore_int : int -> unit
val ignore_fred : fred -> unit
...

Andrew Kay
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