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From: maranget@yquem.inria.fr (Luc Maranget)
To: Loup Vaillant <loup.vaillant@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How must we teach lexical scope?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:49:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070328084955.GA21199@yquem.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f9f8f4a0703280059m5b9af3a1t3a9541b772af98bb@mail.gmail.com>

> So here are a few questions:
> -> Is lexical scope that important when learning pure functional 
> programming?
> -> Are environments helpful (even the slightest bit) when teaching
> lexical scope?
> -> Where does this idea come from? I have not read a single book, as
> single article nor blog talking about environments.
> -> How can we teach lexical scope? Is there a simple solution, the
> kind of a first year student can understand in less than an hour?

An attempt to answer your question 1.


Bon, c'est en français (sorry French only).

http://www.enseignement.polytechnique.fr/profs/informatique/Luc.Maranget/compil/poly/interprete.html#htoc45



--Luc


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-28  8:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-28  7:59 Loup Vaillant
2007-03-28  8:49 ` Luc Maranget [this message]
2007-03-28 14:34   ` [Caml-list] " Loup Vaillant
2007-03-28 15:43     ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-03-28 17:09       ` Loup Vaillant
2007-03-28 19:24         ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-03-29  8:17           ` Loup Vaillant
2007-03-29 10:59             ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-03-28  9:49 ` Pierre-Evariste Dagand
2007-03-28 17:41 ` Pal-Kristian Engstad

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