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
next prev 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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