From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C0CBDD8 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:13:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net (pih-relay04.plus.net [212.159.14.131]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j7QADTsI002865 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:13:30 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1E8bDD-0003Us-Dy for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:13:27 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Parameter evaluation order Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:10:40 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <43065B83.6050503@dravanet.hu> <430CE193.9000805@univ-savoie.fr> <430EE6A1.9040705@univ-savoie.fr> In-Reply-To: <430EE6A1.9040705@univ-savoie.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508261110.41183.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 430EEB49.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 christophe:01 raffalli:01 semicolons:01 ocaml's:01 grammar:01 endline:01 endline:01 ocaml:01 frog:98 wrote:01 undefined:01 caml:02 parameter:02 objective:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Friday 26 August 2005 10:53, Christophe Raffalli wrote: > This looks strange, because the semicolumn is used both to specify order > evaluation left-to-right in sequence and right-to-left in record. I haven't checked but it is probably undefined, rather than right-to-left in records. Semicolons are used in many places in OCaml's grammar. Would you expect the members of a list literal to be evaluated left-to-right, for example? # [print_endline "1"; print_endline "2"];; 2 1 - : unit list = [(); ()] -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. Objective CAML for Scientists http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists