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From: Kenichi Asai <asai@is.ocha.ac.jp>
To: Philippe Wang <mail@philippewang.info>
Cc: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>,
	OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] use of ";;" when teaching Ocaml
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:15:45 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150623011545.GA59525@pllab.is.ocha.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAFfW_qOP7QNYec8fw5qC2_JA7Spc-N0P4SxHE8x3G9fXj3uJw@mail.gmail.com>

> In my opinion, it's a lot more relevant to use a very limited and very
> simple subset of OCaml when teaching to beginners. And this subset
> does not involve expressions at top-level

I totally agree.  Assuming that you are teaching functional
programming in general using OCaml, rather than teaching the OCaml
language itself, I believe a program should consist of only
definitions, not toplevel expressions.  I even think it would have
been nice if we had language levels for beginners as in Racket to
enforce it (with better error messages).

-- 
Kenichi Asai

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-23  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-22 13:31 Alan Schmitt
2015-06-22 13:52 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2015-06-22 13:53 ` Daniil Baturin
2015-06-22 14:19 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2015-06-22 15:48   ` Damien Doligez
2015-06-22 15:56     ` Thomas Refis
2015-06-22 16:07       ` Mark Shinwell
2015-06-22 16:30         ` Gerd Stolpmann
2015-06-22 16:47           ` Mark Shinwell
2015-06-22 17:08             ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-06-22 18:56             ` Gerd Stolpmann
2015-06-22 17:18           ` Török Edwin
2015-06-22 17:42         ` Francois Berenger
2015-06-22 17:46           ` Ivan Gotovchits
2015-06-22 17:53           ` John Whitington
2015-06-22 16:07     ` Pippijn van Steenhoven
2015-06-22 16:25       ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-06-22 18:18       ` Steve Zdancewic
2015-06-22 16:42   ` Thomas Refis
2015-06-22 16:47     ` David House
2015-06-22 17:08     ` Daniil Baturin
2015-06-22 17:04 ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-06-22 23:41 ` Philippe Wang
2015-06-23  1:15   ` Kenichi Asai [this message]
2015-06-23 13:27   ` Alan Schmitt
2015-06-23 13:35     ` Ivan Gotovchits
2015-06-23 13:36       ` Ivan Gotovchits
2015-06-25 16:51     ` Philippe Wang
2015-06-29  0:12       ` Philippe Wang

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