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

[John Whitington <john@coherentgraphics.co.uk>]

Hi Francois,

cat src/test.ml
---
failwith "I don't recommend this"
---

(Assuming you're not exporting main in an interface, and just want an 
error if the module is linked and its initialiser run.)

John

Francois Berenger wrote:
> 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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