From: brogoff <brogoff@speakeasy.net>
To: Christophe Raffalli <christophe.raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Parameter evaluation order
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:25:56 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508241317560.30848@shell2.speakeasy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430CD307.8000802@univ-savoie.fr>
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Christophe Raffalli wrote:
> Anyway, I always found that the application of constructor has a syntax
> to near the syntax of function application:
>
> f (x,y) and A (x,y) are both meaningfull ...
>
> I would prefer square bracket for constructor application, mandatory
> even for unary constructor (and maybe also constant constructor then you
> can lift the restriction about capital letter)
The examples that bother me most are record constructors, where I want to
read structured data from a file into a record. And of course :: (which is
just sugar) too.
If it were just functions, it would be less annoying, but left to right is
less surprising.
It's a fun topic to chat about, but if you were allowed one change in the
language, surely this wouldn't be it? :-)
-- Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-24 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-19 22:21 "Márk S. Zoltán"
2005-08-20 9:12 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2005-08-26 17:53 ` "Márk S. Zoltán"
2005-08-22 16:50 ` Damien Doligez
2005-08-23 7:12 ` skaller
2005-08-23 11:29 ` Damien Doligez
2005-08-23 13:34 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-08-23 19:52 ` Damien Doligez
2005-08-24 1:24 ` Hao-yang Wang
2005-08-24 11:33 ` [Caml-list] " Damien Doligez
2005-08-24 14:39 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-24 15:47 ` Berkeley DB Joel Reymont
2005-08-24 16:08 ` [Caml-list] Re: Parameter evaluation order brogoff
2005-08-24 20:05 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-24 20:25 ` brogoff [this message]
2005-08-24 20:53 ` Jon Harrop
[not found] ` <430CE193.9000805@univ-savoie.fr>
2005-08-26 9:53 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-26 10:10 ` Jon Harrop
2005-08-26 12:09 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-26 12:26 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2005-08-26 16:48 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-27 15:33 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-08-26 12:36 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-08-26 14:17 ` Fernando Alegre
2005-08-26 17:00 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-26 22:58 ` skaller
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