From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
To: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>
Cc: Julien Blond <julien.blond@gmail.com>,
David House <dhouse@janestreet.com>,
OCaml mailing-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The rec/nonrec debate
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:22:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130521142209.GC9228@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369066728.52452.YahooMailNeo@web120405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 09:18:48AM -0700, Dario Teixeira wrote:
> On a tangent, I also find it interesting that Mezzo has adopted the
> Haskell convention of type declarations being head-first. Not that
> I disagree: in fact, one could argue there is some inconsistency in
> the ML/OCaml convention of declaring types head-last and values
> head-first...
IME the OCaml convention is an endless source of confusion for
programmers coming from other languages. For example compared to
C++'s vector<T>.
By the way, why does Mezzo have to be a completely new language?
Just change the syntax of OCaml and force people to put:
syntax 4.00;;
at the top of old code (default to new syntax). The worst that
happens is you have to carry around lots of old parsers in your
compiler.
Rich.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-21 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-20 14:31 Dario Teixeira
2013-05-20 14:38 ` David House
2013-05-20 15:18 ` Julien Blond
2013-05-20 15:19 ` David House
2013-05-20 16:18 ` Dario Teixeira
2013-05-21 14:22 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2013-05-21 15:14 ` Dario Teixeira
2013-05-20 15:17 ` Török Edwin
2013-05-20 16:05 ` Dario Teixeira
2013-05-21 4:07 ` [Caml-list] " Hongbo Zhang
2013-05-21 8:25 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2013-05-21 11:15 ` Boris Yakobowski
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