From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1CDC57EE51 for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 01:24:51 +0200 (CEST) Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of lukstafi@gmail.com) identity=pra; client-ip=209.85.212.53; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="lukstafi@gmail.com"; x-sender="lukstafi@gmail.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: Pass (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: domain of lukstafi@gmail.com designates 209.85.212.53 as permitted sender) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=209.85.212.53; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="lukstafi@gmail.com"; x-sender="lukstafi@gmail.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@mail-vb0-f53.google.com) identity=helo; client-ip=209.85.212.53; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="lukstafi@gmail.com"; x-sender="postmaster@mail-vb0-f53.google.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoUBAKlHoVHRVdQ1k2dsb2JhbABaxW+BAAgWDgEBAQEHCwsJFAQkgiMBAQQBQAEbHQEDDAYFBAEGOyIBEQEFARwGEwiHcgEDCQafKYw/gn2DdwoZJw1YiAwBBQyPEQeDVAOXO49bFimENzo X-IPAS-Result: AoUBAKlHoVHRVdQ1k2dsb2JhbABaxW+BAAgWDgEBAQEHCwsJFAQkgiMBAQQBQAEbHQEDDAYFBAEGOyIBEQEFARwGEwiHcgEDCQafKYw/gn2DdwoZJw1YiAwBBQyPEQeDVAOXO49bFimENzo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,742,1363129200"; d="scan'208";a="18982132" Received: from mail-vb0-f53.google.com ([209.85.212.53]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 26 May 2013 01:24:50 +0200 Received: by mail-vb0-f53.google.com with SMTP id p13so2585150vbe.40 for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 16:24:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=6+ifPHPnfn/qnTxVplcJiCrtk01fGJ84aYwW07FWx+A=; b=sLUbXBM7nL9Y8Tqv/jAjTeoS0dC2HtSrC4UutOJ7LA+Xqz90W2okgBjDCQvK+GwjpC bwOiR9ItuXq4FTyuPmKT10em2PJ079L+tDcu4usUeTmKWuenmEoy4FSDH9DG4O1RmA7q pysvw6s0D+5sQ3Vanr67w7lszfFqqvByLMqBWw1SXt/1K/1Z9nRAO7wbv+Z1s9oba8hl pted9Z3cZB9Ork/wkig3VNeAneBcqWGk2hNhxFHNK0SP5CaBxVrF4UIIF5KMj3xPI1Mc W0EwHJEKLAlksQ3gvGl6Ox6+ao6VxhBVZGzAit1pmaofFqNaJQ1lDVusrqFq1yx41G7g WGuA== X-Received: by 10.220.186.137 with SMTP id cs9mr11995192vcb.6.1369524289337; Sat, 25 May 2013 16:24:49 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.59.4.6 with HTTP; Sat, 25 May 2013 16:24:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130525224209.GA1958@siouxsie> References: <20130523235355.GI6510@siouxsie> <20130524233015.GE1923@siouxsie> <37A1A2D3-5993-4675-9937-ED3965793D1D@khandkar.net> <20130525004045.GH1923@siouxsie> <20130525110457.GA1947@siouxsie> <20130525120455.GF1947@siouxsie> <20130525224209.GA1958@siouxsie> From: Lukasz Stafiniak Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 01:24:29 +0200 Message-ID: To: oliver Cc: David Allsopp , Gabriel Scherer , Wojciech Meyer , Siraaj Khandkar , Arnaud Spiwack , OCaML Mailing List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b5d3bd4c7194104dd933846 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml's variables --047d7b5d3bd4c7194104dd933846 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 12:42 AM, oliver wrote: > > > > > The OCaml Language Specification is most certainly not a document > intended > > for a beginner either to OCaml or functional programming - an obsessive > > elimination of the word variable would likely make the text less clear > to those > > who will actually be reading it. > > OK, I see. > > FWIW, I avoid calling them variables when teaching people who are not math-savvy but already are C/Pascal/Python programmers (unfortunate condition!) Using "familiar" terms can be an obstacle in that case. --047d7b5d3bd4c7194104dd933846 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 12:42 AM, oliver <oliver@= first.in-berlin.de> wrote:

>
> The OCaml Language Specification is most certainly not a document inte= nded
> for a beginner either to OCaml or functional programming - an obsessiv= e
> elimination of the word variable would likely make the text less clear= to those
> who will actually be reading it.

OK, I see.


FWIW, I avoid calling them variables when teaching people who are not mat= h-savvy but already are C/Pascal/Python programmers (unfortunate condition!= ) Using "familiar" terms can be an obstacle in that case.

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