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Warnings in ocaml
- Jacques GARRIGUE
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| From: | Jacques GARRIGUE <garrigue@k...> |
| Subject: | Warnings in ocaml |
I have a few comments about new warnings in ocaml. * having a warning when a function doesn't return unit in a sequence may catch some bugs, but this is a pain with imperative programming style, where you may not be interested by the result of a function but just by its side-effects. Of course you can switch off the warning, but I'm not sure having it on is a good default, since the default mode should be normative. ex. wrong code x = 3; ... ^ should be <- ex. right code f x y; ... where f: t1 -> t2 -> int has some interesting side-effect. * another common error with imperative code is partial application in a toplevel call inside a module let _ = somefunc hsj hjfhfd somefunc takes 3 arguments but is only given 2. Since this is a let-definition no warning is printed while such a partial application is pretty meaningless. Regards, Jacques --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jacques Garrigue Kyoto University garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp <A HREF=http://wwwfun.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/>JG</A>