Original bug ID: 1617
Reporter: administrator
Status: closed
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

Hello.

The ocaml reference manual contains a table of the precedence levels of
different operators http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/htmlman/manual015.html.
In the table there is an entry "not", listed as having lower precedence
than eg. the equality operators. I guess the idea is that you could say
"not a = b" without parenthesis.

Now this seems like a horribly bad idea, since "not" is an ordinary
function identifier like any other. Thankfully, judging from ocaml's
behavior and from the sources, it seems like "not" is not given any
special treatment.

So the entry in the manual's precedence table probably ought to be
removed.

Lauri Alanko
la@iki.fi