Re: [Caml-list] use of ";;" when teaching Ocaml

[Mark Shinwell <mshinwell@janestreet.com>]

I've heard the argument of Gerd from various people on many occasions.
Personally, I don't buy it; I think the situation where the error
message is deficient doesn't happen very often, whereas ";;" is
syntactic clutter that I have to see every day (and would rather not
see).

Mark

On 22 June 2015 at 16:56, Thomas Refis <thomas.refis@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-06-22 16:48 GMT+01:00 Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>:
>> Gerd has totally nailed it, and that's the reason why I always use ;;
>> in my code.
>> If we had another keyword for toplevel let (let without in) the
>> situation would be quite different.
>
> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-camlp4/manual007.html !
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