Re: [Caml-list] ANNOUNCE: mod_caml 1.0.6 - includes security patch

[Eray Ozkural <exa@kablonet.com.tr>]

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 02:34, David Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:48:19AM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> > Compiler knows which x to use, let and which differ only in syntax!
> > Semantics is the same.
>
> Does it?
>
> let f a =
>   let a = a + 1 in
>   a
>   where a = a + 2
>
> What does this function do?  You could argue for any result a, (a+1),
> (a+2), or (a+3).  The casual definition of the where clause doesn't
> specify precedence.  Obviously, an implementation would have to chose
> one, but there is no clear reason one choice is better than the other.

Have a look at Haskell's syntax rules, they work well enough. This is again 
just syntax, it's not a big deal. If the programmer feels the chosen 
syntactic rules make some of his code look ambiguous he may elect
  a) not to use "where"
  b) use blocks to properly indicate scoping, which is just as valid for 
complex use of let!

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