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From: Jeremy Yallop <yallop@gmail.com>
To: Tom Ridge <tom.j.ridge+list@googlemail.com>
Cc: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>, caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Comment syntax?
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:04:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAxsn=EJVTnCv+WUmjCrDN5CLzuEg1MdJX0D9GGMf18WJ-qBXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABooLwOu_xA+ubyUGVQOOGz1fey0=JRCAFK=Y5Bo3mt1zN1eSg@mail.gmail.com>

On 14 September 2016 at 13:51, Tom Ridge
<tom.j.ridge+list@googlemail.com> wrote:
> In this case, has there been any progress on "single line" comments

Yes: there's a recent concrete proposal, and a few (mostly multi-line)
comments on it here:

    https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/671

> // some comment

That would be backwards-incompatible, unfortunately.  For example, the
following program

   let f (
     //
   ) = (
     //
   )

currently defines f as the polymorphic identity function, but with the
addition of '//' comments it would instead define a function of type
'unit -> unit'.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-14 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-14 12:34 Tom Ridge
2016-09-14 12:38 ` David Allsopp
2016-09-14 12:51   ` Tom Ridge
2016-09-14 13:04     ` Jeremy Yallop [this message]
2016-09-14 13:11     ` David Allsopp

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