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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Objective Caml 3.09 released
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:31:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878xwc5rb8.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ADF9856-A290-4EE1-B228-1AC406A85979@inria.fr>

> The rules for Y are a bit complex.  They are designed to match our style
> of programming, where we sometimes document patterns by giving names to
> all the arguments, even if they are unused.

I like the use of "_foo", since it not only documents the pattern by giving
it a name (like "foo" does), it also documents the fact that this variable
is not used (like "_" does).


        Stefan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-29 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-27 14:24 Xavier Leroy
2005-10-27 14:36 ` [Caml-list] " Damien Doligez
2005-10-27 15:40 ` skaller
2005-10-28  2:44 ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-10-28  4:08   ` Aleksey Nogin
2005-10-28  6:49     ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-10-28 19:14     ` Damien Doligez
2005-10-28 21:12       ` Jon Harrop
2005-10-29 14:31       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-10-28  7:28 ` Aleksey Nogin
2005-10-29  5:18   ` Vincenzo Ciancia

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