From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] F# lightweight syntax for Ocaml with camlp4 - possible?
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 02:28:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705080228.05597.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FD6BAF3C-4F48-4713-9E8F-2DF5EAD97893@epfl.ch>
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 00:43, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> In a language where you don't enclose function arguments in parens I
> think this is really a bad idea, it makes the code more confusing
> than readable, especially if you try to code with a line width of 80
> columns.
As a hardcore OCamler, I must say that I had thought the #light syntax in F#
to be morally repugnant. However, now that I've forced myself to actually use
it, I'm finding it to be very useful indeed.
Perhaps the single most important reason why the #light syntax is useful stems
from the way the F# Visual Studio add-in allows you to execute lines or
blocks of code in a running interactive session. I'd love to see something
similar for OCaml but, until then, I don't think the #light syntax would have
quite the bite for OCaml that it does for F#.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
The F#.NET Journal
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/fsharp_journal/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-08 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-07 22:26 Dmitry Bely
2007-05-07 22:36 ` [Caml-list] " Chris King
2007-05-10 15:24 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-05-07 23:43 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-05-08 1:28 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2007-05-08 4:12 ` skaller
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