From: Brian Hurt <brian.hurt@qlogic.com>
To: Daniel Andor <Daniel.Andor@physics.org>
Cc: Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] single-line comment request
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:09:52 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0304081708590.2225-100000@eagle.ancor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304082257.11046.da209@cam.ac.uk>
On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Daniel Andor wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 April 2003 8:04 pm, Brian Hurt wrote:
> > If we're going to be introducing gratuitous backwards incompatiblities,
> > can we please do it for something usefull? Like say replacing begin/end
> > with { and }.
>
> If I may be a beginner here: how does "begin ... end" differ from "( ... )"?
> In practice I've found them to be interchangable, but that could just be an
> accident.
At the linguistic level, not at all. At the text editor level, it's
easier in vi to jump to match braces than matching begin/ends.
Brian
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-08 12:56 Nickolay Semyonov-Kolchin
2003-04-08 15:17 ` Samuel Lacas
2003-04-08 14:27 ` Nickolay Semyonov-Kolchin
2003-04-08 16:21 ` Samuel Lacas
2003-04-09 15:15 ` Thierry SALSET
2003-04-08 15:19 ` Brian Hurt
2003-04-08 14:25 ` Nickolay Semyonov-Kolchin
2003-04-08 16:08 ` Brian Hurt
2003-04-08 15:38 ` Nickolay Semyonov-Kolchin
2003-04-08 17:42 ` Brian Hurt
2003-04-08 17:31 ` Chris Hecker
2003-04-08 16:29 ` Nickolay Semyonov-Kolchin
2003-04-08 19:26 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2003-04-08 20:22 ` Brian Hurt
2003-04-08 21:37 ` Michal Moskal
2003-04-08 17:13 ` Brian Hurt
2003-04-08 19:23 ` Chris Hecker
2003-04-08 18:49 ` Karl Zilles
2003-04-08 19:04 ` Brian Hurt
2003-04-08 21:57 ` Daniel Andor
2003-04-08 22:07 ` Michal Moskal
2003-04-08 22:09 ` Brian Hurt [this message]
2003-04-10 2:59 ` cashin
2003-04-10 7:58 ` [Caml-list] { ... } vs ( ... ) vs begin ... end Frederic van der Plancke
2003-04-08 19:42 ` [Caml-list] single-line comment request Daniel M. Albro
2003-04-08 18:53 ` Alexander V. Voinov
2003-04-08 18:19 ` Nickolay Semyonov-Kolchin
2003-04-08 22:40 ` Joshua Scholar
2003-04-13 19:46 ` Andreas Rossberg
2003-04-13 22:57 ` Daniel M. Albro
2003-04-08 19:53 ` Jeff Henrikson
2003-04-08 20:31 ` Brian Hurt
2003-04-13 14:07 ` John Max Skaller
2003-04-08 15:28 ` Damien
2003-04-08 14:49 ` Nickolay Semyonov-Kolchin
2003-04-08 15:39 ` Brian Hurt
2003-04-08 15:45 ` malc
2003-04-08 15:45 ` Samuel Lacas
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