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From: Brighten Godfrey <pbg@cs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Value shadowing (tangent)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:04:29 -0700
To: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
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On Aug 13, 2008, at 3:49 AM, Brighten Godfrey wrote:

> Going off on a tangent here...
>
> On Aug 13, 2008, at 2:56 AM, David Allsopp wrote:
>>
>> let lst = [5; 4; 3; 2; 1; 0; -1; -2; -3; -4; -5]
>> in
>>   let filter = List.filter (fun x -> x > 0)
>>   in
>>     let double = List.map (fun x -> -2 * x)
>>     in
>>       let sort = List.sort compare
>>       in
>>         (sort $$ double $$ filter) lst
>
> I've seen little of other people's OCaml code, so out of curiosity,  
> do you or others actually write code formatted like the above, as  
> opposed to the more compact and (I think) readable
>
>     let lst = [5; 4; 3; 2; 1; 0; -1; -2; -3; -4; -5] in
>     let filter = List.filter (fun x -> x > 0) in
>     let double = List.map (fun x -> -2 * x) in
>     let sort = List.sort compare in
>     (sort $$ double $$ filter) lst
>
> ?

P.S. Sorry David, on second read I sounded pretty elitist there!  I  
realize this is all subjective and my habits are no more valid than  
others'.  I am curious, though, what styles people have adopted.

Thanks,
~Brighten