Re: [Caml-list] use of ";;" when teaching Ocaml

[Francois Berenger <francois.berenger@inria.fr>]

On 06/22/2015 06:07 PM, Mark Shinwell wrote:
> I've heard the argument of Gerd from various people on many occasions.
> Personally, I don't buy it; I think the situation where the error
> message is deficient doesn't happen very often, whereas ";;" is
> syntactic clutter that I have to see every day (and would rather not
> see).
>
> Mark

I am curious.
How do you make this file compile without ';;' in it ?

# cat src/test.ml
---
let main () =
   failwith "not implemented yet"
;;

main ()
---

I always use ';;' just for that use case.
I really don't know if there is another way that fits a single file.

> On 22 June 2015 at 16:56, Thomas Refis <thomas.refis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2015-06-22 16:48 GMT+01:00 Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>:
>>> Gerd has totally nailed it, and that's the reason why I always use ;;
>>> in my code.
>>> If we had another keyword for toplevel let (let without in) the
>>> situation would be quite different.
>>
>> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-camlp4/manual007.html !
>>
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Regards,
Francois.
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