Re: [Caml-list] OCaml wishlist

[Michal Moskal <malekith@pld-linux.org>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:52:17PM -0500, Brian Hurt wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> 
> > Of course you have to be careful: you can shoot yourself in the foot
> > with wrong indentation:
> > 
> >   let quit _ =
> >     let icon = GMisc.image () in
> >     if !test_id = 0 then (GMain.Main.quit (); false) else
> >     icon#set_stock `DIALOG_QUESTION;
> >     icon#set_icon_size `DIALOG;
> >     [...]
> > 
> > In this case you're just going to jump over icon#set_stock...
> 
> This is a classic problem with dangling-elses, and you see it in C as 
> well:
> 
>     if (x == 3)
>         y = 7;
>         z = 8;

It's dangling semicolon problem :-) 

	if foo then bar
	else
	  let x = baz in 
	  qux;
	  quxx

is different from:

	let x = baz in 
	if foo then bar
	else
	  qux;
	  quxx

let in the beginning changes meaning of semicolon.

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