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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
Cc: OCaml List <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Value shadowing
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:12:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080813101243.GA2038@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9E2C98C8798A487DAE77F20A9DC4F1E8@countertenor>

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 09:54:36AM +0100, David Allsopp wrote:
> Suppose I have this piece of code:
> 
> let foo xs =
>   match xs with
>     x::xs -> if x
>              then xs (* Return the tail of the list *)
>              else xs (* Return the entire list *)
>   | []    -> raise Exit

I'd find it very counter-intuitive if OCaml behaved like this, and
annoying if it gave a warning.  Just name the variables to be
different!

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-13 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-13  8:54 David Allsopp
2008-08-13  9:15 ` [Caml-list] " Brighten Godfrey
2008-08-13  9:56   ` David Allsopp
2008-08-13 10:49     ` [Caml-list] Value shadowing (tangent) Brighten Godfrey
2008-08-13 11:04       ` David Allsopp
2008-08-13 11:04       ` Brighten Godfrey
2008-08-13 11:17         ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-08-13 23:05           ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-08-13 23:33             ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-08-13 11:05       ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-08-16 20:02         ` Pierre Etchemaïté
2008-08-17  8:07           ` David Allsopp
2008-08-17 10:28             ` Pierre Etchemaïté
2008-08-13 10:33   ` [Caml-list] Value shadowing Jim Farrand
2008-08-13 10:12 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2008-08-13 11:04   ` David Allsopp
2008-08-13 12:26     ` blue storm
2008-08-13 15:03     ` Mauricio Fernandez
2008-08-13 11:50 ` blue storm

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