From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: Pippijn van Steenhoven <pip88nl@gmail.com>
Cc: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>,
Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>,
Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>,
OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] use of ";;" when teaching Ocaml
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:25:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B52C3832A6E4449C847D18C940CB45E3@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150622160712.GF5472@xinutec.org>
Le lundi, 22 juin 2015 à 17:07, Pippijn van Steenhoven a écrit :
> An alternative solution is to always return () from unit-returning functions, but I
> found ;; more appealing.
Why "more appealing", it is much less clear. Other people will also use ;; for functions that do return values other than unit so I can't possibly read code with your convention in mind.
unit is () so return () that makes things very clear (that's what I personally do).
Best,
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-22 16:25 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 [this message]
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
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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